Like wheat to the miller
Subtitle: Community, convivencia, and the construction of Morisco identity in sixteenth-century Aragon
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780231503662
Subjects: 16th century; Aragon; Aragon (Spain); Electronic books; History; Moriscos; Social life and customs
First sentence: The Spanish city of Teruel is located beyond the mountains of eastern Aragon, to the north of the port of Valencia.
Description: Mary Halavais's Like Wheat to the Miller: Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in Sixteenth-Century Aragon reopens the question of the reality of convivencia in Aragon during the 16th century in a tightly-woven examination of two villages, Bg̀uena and Burbaguena, in the Jiloca valley. On the basis of notarial records, parish registers, and ecclesiastical archives, Halavais argues that in these villages local laity and religion made little distinction between old Christians and new (Moriscos): These distinctions were imposed from the outside by ecclesiastical authorities and royal agents. Employing literature on 16th-century Spain along with archival materials, this book provocatively posits that the marginalization of Moriscos was imposed on localities by central authorities and not out of antagonism in the local communities themselves.