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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465096603321

Autore

Coleman David

Titolo

Creating Christian Granada : Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492-1600 / / David Coleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2013]

©2003

ISBN

0-8014-6875-2

0-8014-6876-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

946/.8203

Soggetti

HISTORY

Europe / Spain & Portugal

Christians - History - Granada (Reino) - Spain

Muslims - History - Spain - Granada (Reino)

Jews - History - Granada (Reino) - Spain

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Spain & Portugal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Frontier Society -- Chapter 2. Mudéjares and Moriscos -- Chapter 3. A Divided City, A Shared City -- Chapter 4. The Emergence of a New Order -- Chapter 5. Creating Christian Granada -- Chapter 6. Defining Reform -- Chapter 7. Negotiating Reform -- Chapter 8. Rebellion, Retrenchment, and the Road to the Sacromonte, 1564-1600 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada-Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula-surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492. Over the following century, Spanish state and Church officials, along with tens of thousands of Christian



immigrant settlers, transformed the formerly Muslim city into a Christian one.With constant attention to situating the Granada case in the broader comparative contexts of the medieval reconquista tradition on the one hand and sixteenth-century Spanish imperialism in the Americas on the other, Coleman carefully charts the changes in the conquered city's social, political, religious, and physical landscapes. In the process, he sheds light on the local factors contributing to the emergence of tensions between the conquerors and Granada's formerly Muslim, "native" morisco community in the decades leading up to the crown-mandated expulsion of most of the city's moriscos in 1569-1570.Despite the failure to assimilate the moriscos, Granada's status as a frontier Christian community under construction fostered among much of the immigrant community innovative religious reform ideas and programs that shaped in direct ways a variety of church-wide reform movements in the era of the ecumenical Council of Trent (1545-1563). Coleman concludes that the process by which reforms of largely Granadan origin contributed significantly to transformations in the Church as a whole forces a reconsideration of traditional "top-down" conceptions of sixteenth-century Catholic reform.