MORISCOS

môrĭsˈkōz [Span.,=Moorish], Moors converted to Christianity after the Christian reconquest (11th–15th cent.) of Spain. The Moors who had become subjects of Christian kings as the reconquest progressed to the 15th cent. were called Mudéjares. They remained Muslim, and their religion and customs were generally respected. After the fall of Granada (1492), Cardinal Jiménez converted many Moors by peaceful means. However, the rigorous treatment of those who refused conversion or apostatized from the new faith led to an uprising (1500–1502) in Granada. This was soon suppressed. Faced with choosing between conversion or banishment, the majority accepted conversion, but many continued secretly to practice Islam. The Moriscos at times provided the Ottoman Turks with information facilitating Turkish raids on the Spanish coast. Persecuted by the Spanish Inquisition and subjected to restrictive legislation (1526, 1527), the Moriscos rose in a bloody rebellion (1568–71), which Philip II put down with the help of John of Austria. The Moriscos prospered in spite of persecutions and furthered Spanish agriculture, trade, and industries. However, in 1609 Philip III, influenced by Lerma, decreed their expulsion for both religious and political reasons.

See H. C. Lea, The Moriscos of Spain (1901, repr. 1969).

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books on: Moriscos  - 388 results

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Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities
Book by Barbara Fuchs; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: Difference (Psychology) In Literature, Mimesis In Literature, Spanish American Literature--To 1800--History And Criticism, Spanish Literature--Classical Period, 1500-1700--History And Criticism
...years 1568 71 saw the uprising of the Moriscos, those Moors who had remained after...even with the final expulsion of the Moriscos from the Peninsula in 1609. When they...Ottoman Turks, in alliance with the Moriscosand the North African Moors, asa real and...
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Spain, 1469-1714: A Society of Conflict
Book by Henry Kamen; Longman, 1991
Subjects: Spain--History--Ferdinand And Isabella, 1479-1516, Spain--History--House Of Austria, 1516-1700, Spain--History--Philip V, 1700-1746
...168 The Moriscos in the sixteenth century 172...The expulsion of the Moriscos 219...Castile 285 7 The expulsion of the Moriscos 286 GLOSSARY Alcabala . Castilian...
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Spanish Women in the Golden Age: Images and Realities
Book by Magdalena S. Sanchez, Alain Saint-Saens; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Sex Role--Spain--History, Spain--Social Conditions--To 1800, Women--Spain--History
...Increasingly, converted Muslims, now called moriscos, or little Moors, became suspect...from ecclesiastical officials that moriscos baptisms were valid even if they had...to send repre- sentatives to visit moriscos throughout his kingdoms and instruct...
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Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain
Book by Elizabeth B. Davis; University of Missouri Press, 2000
Subjects: Epic Poetry, Spanish--History And Criticism, Group Identity In Literature, Myth In Literature, Spanish Poetry--Classical Period, 1500-1700--History And Criticism
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The Hundred Years War for Morocco: Gunpowder and the Military Revolution in the Early Modern Muslim World
Book by Weston F. Cook Jr.; Westview Press, 1994
Subjects: Firearms--Morocco--History, Military Art And Science--Morocco--History, Morocco--History, Military
...Balkans in the Sixteenth Century" Turcica 10 1977 : 125-157. 59. For one key minority, see A. C. Hess, "The Moriscos: An Ottoman Fifth Column in Sixteenth Century Spain", American Historical Review 74 October 1968 : 1-25. 60...
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Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan De Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614
Journal article by James B. Tueller; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan De Ribera and Religious Reform...Benjamin Ehlers. Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform...preposition. Between Christians and Moriscos investigates the episcopate of Juan...
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The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain
Journal article by Debra Blumenthal; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain (Book)--Book reviews
The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early...Elizabeth Perry. The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early...culminated in the expulsion of the Moriscos between 1609 and 1614. Perry shifts...
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Spanish Lessons: Spenser and the Irish Moriscos
Journal article by Barbara Fuchs; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 42, 2002
Subjects: England--Relations with Spain, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spenser, Edmund--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Spanish lessons: Spenser and the Irish Moriscos by Barbara Fuchs The English...mere" Irish, the Spaniards targeted the Moriscos, or "l ittle Moors," who had remained...20) The legislations targeting the Moriscos on the one hand and the Irish on the...
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Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
Journal article by Mar Jonsson; Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 (Book)--Book reviews, The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain (Book)--Book reviews
...plus 448 pp.). The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early...plus 202 pp.). Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform...started the fascinating story of the Moriscos, in other words "the newly converted...
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Cide Hamete Benengeli Y Los Libros Plumbeos
Journal article by Thomas E. Case; Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Vol. 22, 2002
Subjects: El ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (Libro), Espana, Libros, Libros plumbeos del Sacromonte (Libro), Personajes y caracteristicas en literatura, de Cervantes, Miguel
...en la luz de la contextualidad de los moriscos de fines del siglo XVI y de la aparicion...descubrimientos," hechos por unos obreros moriscos al derribar en Granada el antiguo minarete...gitano), indumentaria prohibida a los moriscos, y otros objetos curiosos. Hubo un medio...
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The Muslim Expulsion from Spain: Roger Boase Looks at a Spanish Example of Religious and Ethnic Cleansing
Magazine article by Roger Boase; History Today, Vol. 52, April 2002
Subjects: Arabs in Spain--History, Deportation--Spain, Muslims--Spain, Race relations--Spain, Spain--History
...person might be obliged to do penance. Moriscos who were sincere Christians were also...including 400 women and children. Some 80,000 Moriscos in Granada were dispersed to other parts...expulsion. Royal legislation concerning the Moriscos was dictated at every stage by the Church...
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Don Quixote
Magazine article by Jack Miles, Terry Castle; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, June 2004
...believer of the Catholic faith." As for the expulsion of the Moriscos, to which Castle alludes, Ricote says that he and his daughter...pronounced rise in anti-Moorish sentiment across Spain: the Moriscos were regularly accused of continuing to practice Islam in secret...
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Lerma before Olivares
Magazine article by Graham Darby; History Today, Vol. 45, July 1995
Subjects: Duke of Lerma--Evaluation, Europe--17th century, Gaspar, Count-Duke of Olivares--Evaluation, Philip IV, King of Spain--Political activity, Spain--17th century
...coincidence that the decree expelling the Moriscos from Spain was issued on the same day...the purification of the kingdom. The Moriscos were the descendents of the Arab conquerors...Between 1609 and 1614 about 300,000 Moriscos were expelled from mainland Spain, and...
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What If ... Philip II Had Gone to the Netherlands? Geoffrey Parker Considers the Far-Reaching Consequences of a Sudden Change of Plan by the King of Spain in 1567
Magazine article by Geoffrey Parker; History Today, Vol. 54, August 2004
Subjects: Netherlands--Military aspects, Revolutions--16th century AD, Revolutions--17th century AD, War--16th century AD, War--17th century AD, War--Religious aspects, Wars--16th century AD, Wars--17th century AD, Wars--Religious aspects
...or the outbreak of the revolt of the Moriscos of Granada in December 1568; but sending...Spain in 1570 after the revolt by the Moriscos of Granada, and to Aragon in 1592 after...male heir. Finally, in December; the Moriscos of Granada rose in rebellion. The Kings...
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The History Boys: Algeria's El Gusto Hark Back to a Golden Age of Religious Tolerance, Writes Rachel Aspden
Magazine article by Rachel Aspden; New Statesman, Vol. 136, November 5, 2007
Subjects: Algerian history--Portrayals, Folk music--History, Musical groups--Performances, Musical groups--Works, Religious tolerance--Portrayals
...and, more recently, from) Algeria. The 15th century brought Jews recently expelled from Spain; the early 17th brought Spanish moriscos, Christian converts of Arab descent. Many settled in Algiers--a migration commemorated in chaabis Andalusian elements as well...
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The 'Unconquered' & Muslim Aspirations; (from Dr. Cesar A. Majul's Muslims in the Philippines (UP, 1977), the Following Excerpts on the History of the Muslim South Up to the End of Spanish Rule Is Reproduced Briefly in Substance.)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 12, 2007
Subjects: Christian-Muslim relations, Christianity and other religions--Islam, Muslims
...the Spaniards finally ousted the Muslims from Granada, their last stronghold in Spain and continued the crusade against the Moriscos. The same crusading spirit imbued them in the Philippines. The Moros, as the Spaniards called the Muslim in the Philippines...
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So Much Moor to Andalucia; Daisy Goodwin Is Entranced by the Indelible Mark Left on This Famous Corner of Spain by 500 Years of Islamic Rule
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 5, 2004
...Christian persecution of Jews and Muslims. It culminated in a spectacular piece of ethnic cleansing in 1609 when all the remaining Moriscos ( Spanish Muslims) were forcibly shipped to Morocco. But while the Spanish monarchs may have succeeded in ejecting 300,000...


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Moriscos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MORISCOS moris koz Span.,=Moorish, Moors converted to Christianity...conversion, but many continued secretly to practice Islam. The Moriscos at times provided the Ottoman Turks with information facilitating...subjected to restrictive legislation (1526, 1527), the Moriscos rose in a bloody rebellion (1568 71), which Philip II...
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FernÁndez De CÓrdoba, Gonzalo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Granada. He commanded (1495 98) the army aiding Naples against Charles VIII of France. After expeditions against the rebellious Moriscos of Granada and the Turks, he returned to Italy as an ally of Louis XII of France, who had joined with Ferdinand II of Aragon...
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Lerma, Francisco GÓmez De Sandoval Y Rojas, Duque De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...concentrated mainly on enriching himself. The most vigorous action taken by his administration was the expulsion (1609 14) of the Moriscos. In 1618, shortly after he had become a cardinal, he was ousted from power by his own son. After an inquiry ordered (1621...
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Lea, Henry Charles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Middle Ages (3 vol., 1888), A History of Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church (3 vol., 1896), The Moriscos of Spain (1901), and The Inquisition of Spain (4 vol., 1906 7). Recent scholarship has challenged some of Leas work. However...
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Moors
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Mudejares, while those who accepted Christianity were called Moriscos . They were allowed to stay in Spain but were kept under close...Inquisition were virtually exterminated. In 1609 the remaining Moriscos were expelled. Thus the glory of the Moorish civilization in...
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