Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Names
- Introduction
- 1 The Inquisition and the Campo de Calatrava in the Sixteenth Century
- 2 Literacy, Education, and Social Mobility
- 3 Justice and the Law
- 4 From Heretic to Presbyter: The Herrador Family, 1540–1660
- 5 Official Rhetoric versus Local Reality: Propaganda and the Expulsion of the Moriscos
- 6 Opposition to the Expulsion of the Moriscos
- 7 Those Who Stayed
- 8 Those Who Returned
- 9 Rewriting History
- 10 Good and Faithful Christians: The Inquisition and Villarrubia in the Seventeenth Century
- 11 Assimilation: Reality or Fiction?
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Names
- Introduction
- 1 The Inquisition and the Campo de Calatrava in the Sixteenth Century
- 2 Literacy, Education, and Social Mobility
- 3 Justice and the Law
- 4 From Heretic to Presbyter: The Herrador Family, 1540–1660
- 5 Official Rhetoric versus Local Reality: Propaganda and the Expulsion of the Moriscos
- 6 Opposition to the Expulsion of the Moriscos
- 7 Those Who Stayed
- 8 Those Who Returned
- 9 Rewriting History
- 10 Good and Faithful Christians: The Inquisition and Villarrubia in the Seventeenth Century
- 11 Assimilation: Reality or Fiction?
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
At the beginning of this century Gregorio Colás Latorre wrote that
The voice of the Mudéjares and New Christians […] is to be found above all in local history. The Mudéjar and, later, the Morisco do not express themselves through the means of communication of the time, but via their deeds, which are to be found in the old and dusty papers of seigniorial, municipal and notarial archives. Here we will find a dimension of their lives very different to that narrated by the dominant historiography, which has practically limited the Morisco problem to a political–religious question.
The aim of Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern Spain is to give voice to the thousands of Mudéjares, later Moriscos who inhabited the Campo de Calatrava and whose lives were certainly more than just a political–religious question. For the first time we will see them as real people, living real lives, integrated in their local communities, well adapted to their environment, respected by their neighbours. This book therefore makes no bones in challenging over four hundred years of accepted history on the Moriscos as it attempts to give a more accurate picture of their presence in Spain before, during, and after their official expulsion from the country between 1609 and 1614.
The historiography on the Moriscos of Spain is large and continues to grow, especially in recent years and mainly as a result of the four-hundredth anniversary of their expulsion.
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- Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern SpainThe Moriscos of the Campo de Calatrava, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014