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Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2014

Abstract

This work tries to describe graphically the consolidation of a social myth in the unsettled Mediterranean of the 16th century, through a personage: the Spanish convert to Islam Hassan Aga (Azan Aga), the Sardinian renegade who succeeded Hayreddin Barbarrosa at the helms of Algiers from 1533 till his death ten years later. This was a period of intense activity, with the the climax that came with the expedition of Charles to Algiers in 1541, whose spectacular defeat can be considered as the principal nucleus of the myth of this popular personage who as a Sardinian slave came to defeat the Emperor. A myth of social ascension with maquiavelical profiles of a new prince of the frontiers.

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Title
EL MULADÍ HASSAN AGA (AZAN AGA) Y SU GOBIERNO EN ARGEL. LA CONSOLIDACIÓN DE UN MITO MEDITERRÁNEO/Hassan Aga and his Government in Algiers. The Consolidation of a Mediterranean Myth
Author
Lanza, Fernando Fernández
Pages
77-99
Publication year
2014
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
ISSN
02132079
e-ISSN
23863889
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1648847610
Copyright
Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2014