La Goletta of Tunis c. 1550: Public and Private Lives in a North African Fortress

This talk will focus on the Goletta of Tunis in different scholarly discourses. While architectural historians have explored the complex building history of the site, they usually disregard its social life. In turn, social historians have overlooked the mixed population of the Goletta, where some members of the local Hafsid dynasty were longtime residents alongside Spanish and Italian soldiers. Shifting our perspective also allows us to see how the fortress served as a treasury for sixteenth-century Hafsid rulers.

Chair: Dr Adam Sammut, Early Career Leverhulme Fellow, History of Art Department.