Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern Spain

Old Christians and Moriscos in the Campo de Calatrava
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-85566-273-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 334, 291 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Monografías A

Challenges the view that that the Moriscos of Spain made little or no attempt to assimilate to the majority Christian culture around them, and that this led to their expulsion between 1609 and 1614.

There has been a widely-held consensus among historians that the Moriscos of Spain made little or no attempt to assimilate to the majority Christian culture around them, and that this apparent obduracy made their expulsion between1609 and 1614 both necessary and inevitable. This book challenges that view.
Assimilation, coexistence, and tolerance between Old and New Christians in early modern Spain were not a fiction or a fantasy, but could be a reality, made possible by the thousands of ordinary individuals who did not subscribe to the negative vision of the Moriscos put around by the propagandists of the government, and who had lived in peace and harmony side by side for generations. For some, this may be a new and surprising vision of early modern Spain, which for too long, and thanks in large part to the Black Legend, has been characterized as a land of intolerance and fanaticism. This book will help to rebalance the picture and show sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain in a new, infinitely richer and more rewarding light. Trevor J. Dadson FBA is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, andis currently President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dadson, Trevor J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: Neuzeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam und Weltreligionen, Weltethos

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The Inquisition and the Campo de Calatrava in the Sixteenth Century
Literacy, Education, and Social Mobility
Justice and the Law
From Heretic to Presbyter: the Herrador Family, 1540-1660
Official Rhetoric versus Local Reality: Propaganda and the Expulsion of the Moriscos
Opposition to the Expulsion of the Moriscos
Those Who Stayed
Those Who Returned
Rewriting History
Good and Faithful Christians: the Inquisition and Villarrubia in the Seventeenth Century
Assimilation: Reality or Fiction?
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Inquisition and the Campo de Calatrava in the Sixteenth Century
• 3 Literacy, Education, and Social Mobility
• 4 Justice and the Law
• 5 From Heretic to Presbyter: the Herrador Family, 1540-1660
• 6 Official Rhetoric versus Local Reality: Propaganda and the Expulsion of the Moriscos
• 7 Opposition to the Expulsion of the Moriscos
• 8 Those Who Stayed
• 9 Those Who Returned
• 10 Rewriting History
• 11 Good and Faithful Christians: the Inquisition and Villarrubia in the Seventeenth Century
• 12 Assimilation: Reality or Fiction?
• 13 Glossary
• 14 Bibliography
• 15 Index