Mozarabs In Medieval And Early Modern Spain
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Author | : Richard Hitchcock |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317093739 |
The setting of this volume is the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, where Christianity and Islam co-existed side by side as the official religions of Muslim al-Andalus on the one hand, and the Christian kingdoms in the north of the peninsula on the other. Its purpose is to examine the meaning of the word 'Mozarab' and the history and nature of the people called by that name; it represents a synthesis of the author's many years of research and publication in this field. Richard Hitchcock first sets out to explain what being a non-Muslim meant in al-Andalus, both in the higher echelons of society and at a humbler level. The terms used by Arab chroniclers, when examined carefully, suggest a lesser preoccupation with purely religious values than hitherto appreciated. Mozarabism in León and Toledo, two notably distinct phenomena, are then considered at length, and there are two chapters exploring the issues that arose, firstly when Mozarabs were relocated in twelfth-century Aragón, and secondly, in sixteenth-century Toledo, when they were striving to retain their identity.
Author | : Thomas F. Glick |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004147713 |
This work represents a considerably revised edition of the first comparative history of Islamic and Christian Spain between A.D. 711 and 1250. It focuses on the differential development of agriculture and urbanization in the Islamic and Christian territories and the flow of information and techniques between them.
Author | : Richard Hitchcock |
Publisher | : New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Andalusia (Spain) |
ISBN | : 9780748639601 |
Covers the period from 711 to1502, giving readers a substantial overview of what it was that made Muslim Spain a unique and successful society, and of its powerful legacy in the formation of modern Spain.
Author | : Albrecht Classen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2023-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3111190609 |
Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative perspectives on often neglected literary, philosophical, historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge, and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and trade, for instance, global connections were established and maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed in many literatures indicate how much pre-modern people actually shared. But we also discover hard-core facts of global economic exchange, import of exotic medicine, and, on another level, intensive intellectual debates on religious issues. Literary evidence serves best to expose the extent to which contacts with people in foreign countries were imaginable, often desirable, and at times feared, of course. The pre-modern world was much more on the move and reached out to distant lands out of curiosity, economic interests, and political and military concerns. Diplomats crisscrossed the continents, and artists, poets, and craftsmen traveled widely. We can identify, for instance, both the Vikings and the Arabs as global players long before the rise of modern globalism, so this volume promises to rewrite many of our traditional notions about pre-modern worldviews, economic conditions, and the literary sharing on a global level, as perhaps best expressed by the genre of the fable.
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Perry |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400849322 |
In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity. Mary Elizabeth Perry uses this event as the starting point for a remarkable exploration of how Moriscos, converted Muslims and their descendants, responded to their increasing disempowerment in sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century Spain. Stepping beyond traditional histories that have emphasized armed conflict from the view of victors, The Handless Maiden focuses on Morisco women. Perry argues that these women's lives offer vital new insights on the experiences of Moriscos in general, and on how the politics of religion both empowers and oppresses. Drawing on archival documents, legends, and literature, Perry shows that the Moriscas carried out active resistance to cultural oppression through everyday rituals and acts. For example, they taught their children Arabic language and Islamic prayers, dietary practices, and the observation of Islamic holy days. Thus the home, not the battlefield, became the major forum for Morisco-Christian interaction. Moriscas' experiences further reveal how the Morisco presence provided a vital counter-identity for a centralizing state in early modern Spain. For readers of the twenty-first century, The Handless Maiden raises urgent questions of how we choose to use difference and historical memory.
Author | : Emma Hornby |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1843838141 |
The tradition of Old Hispanic liturgical chant is here examined through a new methodology, enabling striking new insights into its use.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2018-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004380515 |
A Companion to Medieval Toledo. Reconsidering the Canons explores the limits of "Convivencia" through new and problematized readings and initiates the non-specialist into the historical, cultural, and religious complexity of the iconic city.
Author | : Yasmine Beale-Rivaya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Historiography |
ISBN | : 9789004379312 |
A Companion to Medieval Toledo. Reconsidering the Canons explores the limits of "Convivencia" through new and problematized readings and initiates the non-specialist into the historical, cultural, and religious complexity of the iconic city.
Author | : Charles L. Tieszen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-05-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004192298 |
In Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain Charles L. Tieszen explores a small corpus of texts from medieval Spain in an effort to deduce how their authors defined their religious identity in light of Islam, and in turn, how they hoped their readers would distinguish themselves from the Muslims in their midst. It is argued that the use of reflected self-image as a tool for interpreting Christian anti-Muslim polemic allows such texts to be read for the self-image of their authors instead of the image of just those they attacked. As such, polemic becomes a set of borders authors offered to their communities, helping them to successfully navigate inter-religious living.
Author | : Richard Hitchcock |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2014-02-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 074867831X |
Covers the period from 711 to1502, giving readers a substantial overview of what it was that made Muslim Spain a unique and successful society, and of its powerful legacy in the formation of modern Spain.