Lepanto in the Americas: Global Storytelling and Mediterranean History

Abstract This paper reveals the voices, logics, and consequences of sixteenth-century American storytelling about Battle Lepanto; an approach that decenters our perspective on history battle. Central South Lepanto, I argue, should prompt a reconsideration historians’ Mediterranean-centered Lepanto—the event—by studying social dynamics its event-making in light early modern global connections. Studying circulation news, symbolic power festivities, indigenous responses to autobiographical protagonists participating at battle, this how Lepanto burgeoned Spanish overseas territories.