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Between 1482 and 1492 a drawn-out and arduous war was conducted on the southern-most border of the Kingdom of Castile and the final Iberian Muslim Kingdom of Granada. While the conflict can be understood as local to the Iberian Peninsula and the growing incorporative efforts of …

The population of Iberian Muslims who had been converted to Christianity, Moriscos, was marked by its diversity. While most Moriscos worked as tradesmen, making silk or working fields of fruits for example, many Morisco merchants and land-owners populated the higher echelons of …

This dissertation studies the production, circulation, and diffusion of apocalyptic prognostications by the Moriscos in sixteenth-century Spain.

The present study argues that the Iberian weave of Andalusi convivencia, which for centuries was characterized by a multicultural cohabitation (hardly harmonious and peaceful, and yet focusing on the border as a line of contiguity and not exclusion), continued to be imbedded in …

In the latter half of the sixteenth century, Spain's Catholic rulers faced a problem of their own making: having forced Spain's remaining Muslim population to convert to Christianity, these rulers now suspected that these converts, known as Moriscos, were not faithful to the cro…