Creating Christian Granada : society and religious culture in an Old-World frontier city, 1492-1600 / David Coleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleman, David, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christians--History--Granada (Reino)--Spain.

Christians.

Muslims--History--Spain--Granada (Reino).

Muslims.

Jews--Spain--Granada (Reino)--History.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780801468759

0801468752

9780801468766

0801468760

OCLC:

849921498