The expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609-1614) represents an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing which affected about 300,000 persons. The controversial measure was legimitized by an ideology of religious and political unity that served to defend the expulsion of them all, crypto-Muslims and sincere converts to Christianity alike. The first part focuses on the decision to expel the Moriscos, its historical context and the role of such institutions as the Vatican and the religious orders, and nations such as France, Italy, the Dutch Republic, Morocco and the Ottoman Empire. The second part studies the aftermath of the expulsion, the forced migrations, settlement and Diaspora of the Moriscos, comparing their vicissitudes with that of the Jewish conversos.
List of figures and tables List of abbrevations List of frequently used terms List of contributors Introduction / Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers Part 1. The expulsion : preparations, debates, and process The geography of the Morisco expulsion : a quantitative study / Bernard Vincent The expulsion of the Moriscos in the context of Philip III's Mediterranean policy / Miguel Angel de Bunes Ibarra Rhetorics of the expulsion / Antonio Feros The religious debate in Spain / Rafael Benitez Sanchez Blanco The Vatican's position towards the expulsion / Stefania Pastore The religious orders and the expulsion of the Moriscos : doctrinal controversies and Hispano-Papal relations / Paolo Broggio The unexecuted plans for the eradication of Jewish heresy in the Hispanic monarchy and the example of the Moriscos : the thwarted expulsion of the Judeoconversos / Juan Ignacio Pulido The Moriscos who stayed behind or returned post-1609 / James B. Tueller Part 2. The Morisco diaspora The Moriscos outside Spain : routes and financing / Luis F. Bernabe Pons and Jorge Gil Herrera The Moriscos in France after the expulsion : notes for the history of a minority / Youssef El Alaoui Moriscos in Ottoman Galata, 1609-1620s / Tijana Krstic The Moriscos in Morocco : from Granadan emigration to the Hornacheros of Sale / Mercedes Garcia-Arenal Andalusi immigration and urban development in Algiers (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) / Sakina Missoum The Moriscos in Tunisia / Glatz Villanueva Zubizarreta The expulsion of 1609-1614 and the polemical writings of the Moriscos living in the diaspora / Gerard Wiegers Converted Jews and Moriscos in the diaspora / Natalia Muchnik Index of places Index of names.
"Originally published in Spanish in 2013 by Publicacions Universitat de Valencia as: Los Moriscos : Expulsion y Diaspora : una perspectiva internacional"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-478) and indexes.
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