Bad Christians, New Spains: Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World

ISBN-13: 9780367221126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 342 str.

Byron E. Hamann

Opis

This book centers on two inquisitorial investigations. One involved relations of Europeans and Native Americans in an Oaxacan town (in New Spain). The other involved relations of Moriscos (recent Muslim converts to Catholicism) and Old Christians (people with deep Catholic ancestries) in Mediterranean kingdom of Valencia (in old Spain).

Spis treści

Introduction  1.Ashes and Silkworms  2.Geographies of Discord  3. Catholic Catholicisms  4. The Poverty of Economy  5. Ruination  6. The Excavation of the Dead  7. Chronologies at War  Conclusion: Conversion, reduction, and early modern empire  Epilogue

O autorze

Byron Ellsworth Hamann is Hanna Kiel Fellow at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy.