...Lauren Beck Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America . By Cook Karoline P. . Early Modern Americas . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. 261 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Copyright ©...

... 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Moriscos e indios: Precedentes hispánicos de la evangelizatión en México . By Aranda Antonio Garrido . Mexico City : UNAM , 1980 . Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 181 . Paper . ...

...) Mulato prieto (Negro and parda) Mulato lobo (Pardo and Indian, commonly called a lobo) Morisco (Spanish and mulato) Mestizo (Spanish and Indian) Castizo (Spanish and Mestizo) Indio (an Indian) Indio ladino (an Indian who had adopted Spanish customs and spoke the Spanish...

... century Negro, Moorish, and Morisco slaves 1 made up a sizable and conspicuous part of the population of Seville, a town that became, as a result of the opening of the New World, the most famous and important city in Spain. 2 Throughout the century slaves abounded among the crowds that filled...

.... 13 Archivo Parroquial, Mexico City (Sagrario), “Libro de amonestaciones de castas” (1655), records the presence of both castizos and moriscos. The term “morisco” thus appears in Mexico City considerably earlier than in Oaxaca, where it emerged in the eighteenth century. See John K. Chance, Race...

... as powerful players in international mercantile networks and settle in viceregal capitals when the Spanish crown had strictly prohibited conversos and other New Christians, such as Moriscos, from crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Spanish America? This is one of the important questions that animates Stuart B...

.... As a result, the work is far longer than necessary and is filled with numerous lengthy digressions. His use of the term morisco , which he defines somewhat inaccurately in the glossary, is ambiguous. To refer to Pedro de Alcalá (p. 115) as a morisco converso complicates matters still more. Why he finds...

... in Spain and of relative toleration that permitted the flowering of a “humanistic” renaissance. Don Diego could publicly defend Averroist philosophy, display sympathy for Moriscos, and feel no need to make a show of religiosity. However, one should not overestimate the degree of freedom possible...

... in 1546 of the Lutheran Juan Diaz, arranged by his Catholic brother to preserve family honor. Ruth Pike, Hunter College, described “The Moriscos of Seville,” a group comprising about 6,000 in 1580. Their rigid endogamy, high rate of population increase, retention of their own language, and traditional...

... experience with a foreign non-Christian people—the Moriscos—is analyzed in two studies in order to explain the nation’s attitude in dealing with many of its New World subjects: Antonio Garrido, “La educación de moriscos y mexicas como factor de asimilación cultural,” and Nicolás Cabrillana, “Posibles...

... chapters, a coda, and four appendixes, the book is the much-awaited culmination of Vinson's 2005 essay “Estudiando las razas desde la periferia: Las castas olvidadas del sistema colonial mexicano (lobos, moriscos, coyotes, moros y chinos),” which was published in the essay collection Pautas de convivencia...

... University Press . Coleman David . 2003 . Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492–1600 . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Cook Karoline P. 2016 . Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America...

... the part played by Antonio Ortiz, Marcos Romero, and Francisco Triana, whom he calls “moriscos e intérpretes.” Triana was present in Mexico City from at least the 1530s. 72 In the 1540s and early 1550s interpreters—“lenguas” and “nahuatacos”—appear more frequently in the records, perhaps reflecting both...

... Guía espiritual and Spanish quietism, and the rise of Spanish Jansenism. Little new material appears on the expulsion of the Moriscos or, at the end of the period, of the Jesuits. There are some good, though hardly exhaustive, details on the Enlightenment, but very little attention is paid to overseas...

... topics ranging from the demographic effects of the expulsion of the Moriscos to the financial problems of municipalities, from the state of agriculture to endemic banditry, from the economic plight of the nobility to the functioning of the Cortes. Indeed, the only important subject not discussed...

... by Braudel but transcendentally significant to a Muslim. Political detail is excellent and overdue although its flow becomes tedious in chapters 5 and 6. Especially good are chapter 7 on the Mudejar-Morisco predicament in a context very different from earlier Spanish pluralisms, chapter 8 on the abortive...

... of people and crimes singled out for persecution by the Aragonese inquisitors: Moriscos, French Protestants, witchcraft, and sodomy. Part 5 traces the eclipse of Aragon as a center of inquisitorial activity after 1630. Monter concludes his study by noting that the Aragonese Inquisitions maintained...

... of the Moriscoes and the battle of Lepanto. Such high drama as the destruction of the fleet, the seizure of Montezuma, the debacle of Noche Triste, Pizarro’s stern resolution, and the gathering of the Peruvian treasure crowd these pages. Finally, Prescott routinely gave attention to background, which Blacker...

... provoking analysis. The chapters on the several social classes, the church, towns and countryside are full of new insights and illuminating comments. Chapter 11 entitled “Social Outcasts” is especially enlightening not only for its excellent description of the Moriscos and Black slaves, but also...

... realities in the period’s cultural Others—converted Jews and Muslims— could be displaced back to women’s bodies, and in particular the difficulty of “reading” adultery on wives’ bodies. Third, Black notes a certain fluidity between the wife’s body and the body of the converso or morisco , an instability...