Karoline P. Cook

Forbidden Passages

Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Forbidden Passages is the first book to document and evaluate the impact of Moriscos-Christian converts from Islam-in the early modern Americas, and how their presence challenged notions of what it meant to be Spanish as the Atlantic empire expanded.

Produktdetails

• The Early Modern Americas
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248241
• ISBN-10: 0812248244
• Artikelnr.: 44469019

Autorenporträt

Karoline P. Cook

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Who Were the Moriscos? Introducing a Transatlantic Story
Chapter 2. Into the Atlantic: Justifying Title and Establishing Dominion
Chapter 3. Forbidden Crossings: Emigration Legislation and Morisco
Responses
Chapter 4. "These Hidden Heretics": The Politics of Morisco Religiosity
Chapter 5. Healers and Diviners: Morisco Practitioners in the New World
Chapter 6. "Polvos del Gran Turco": Moriscos and Magical Practice in
Spanish America
Chapter 7. Honor, Lineage, Ovandina: The Dynamics of Accusations and
Religious Intolerance
Chapter 8. Images of Muslims and Moriscos in Spanish America
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments