"Creating Christian Granada provides a detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. With constant attention to situating the Granada case in the broader comparative contexts of the medieval reconquista tradition on the one hand a…
"In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence. In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, lega…
"In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence. In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, lega…
The century that followed the fall of Granada at the end of 1491 and the subsequent consolidation of Christian power over the Iberian Peninsula was marked by the introduction of anti-Arabic legislation and the development of hostile cultural norms affecting Arabic speakers. Yet …
"This book is a study of the strategies of Arabic translators and administrative functions of Arabic translation as part of a suite of techniques for political rule and social discipline. Translation underpinned the elaboration of Spain's administrative empire from the expansion…
This thesis traces the Morisco experience and resulting Crypto-Islamic identity duringthe late medieval through early modern period in the Iberian Peninsula using language, law,popular culture, and the results of DNA research. The Crypto-Islamic Identity took rootbefore their of…
Moriscos do not represent a unique case of a minority group in the history of the Iberian peninsula; but they are the only converted group to be sentenced to expulsion from Iberian lands between 1609 and 1614. The reasons behind their struggle are numerous, and they are based on…
Focuses on how questions surrounding the conversion of Muslims and Jews to Christianity in 16th and 17th century Spain drove religious reform and scholarly innovation"
"Focuses on how questions surrounding the conversion of Muslims and Jews to Christianity in 16th and 17th century Spain drove religious reform and scholarly innovation."
Focuses on how questions surrounding the conversion of Muslims and Jews to Christianity in 16th and 17th century Spain drove religious reform and scholarly innovation.
Focuses on how questions surrounding the conversion of Muslims and Jews to Christianity in 16th and 17th century Spain drove religious reform and scholarly innovation.