"This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV"--
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Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
"This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV"--
Turks at Work: Building the Marseille Arsenal -- Port to Palace: Mediterranean Mastery at Paris and Versailles -- Civility and Barbarism: Enslaved Turks in Maritime Ceremonies and Manuals -- Spectacles of Suffering: Galley Slaves and Plague