Summary: Although previous historiography has emphasized the dichotomy of Christianity vs. Islam in the early modern Mediterranean, scholars have increasingly come to appreciate instability and fluidity of these categories embodied by various social characters that straddled both worlds called go-betweens. In this installment of the Ottoman History Podcast, Emrah Safa Gürkan explains the role of one such category of go-betweens, the renegades, in shaping Mediterranean politics and society.
