Blood and faith
Subtitle: the purging of Muslim Spain
By: Matthew Carr
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781595586407
Subjects: Morisker; Etnisk rensning; Ethnic relations; Tvångsförflyttningar; Historia; Etniska relationer; Muslims; Kyrkohistoria; Church history; Inkvisitionen; Forced migration; Muslimer; History
Description: Tells the story of 1609 Spain when King Philip III declared the Muslim inhabitants as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year they were given 3 days to leave Spanish territory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Conquest to conversion; title: 1. The Iberian exception; title: 2. The victors; title: 3. The vanquished; title: 4. Broken promises : Granada 1492-1500; title: 5. Rebellion and conversion; title: 6. Faith triumphant; title: 7. The last redout : Aragon 1520-1526; title: pt. II. One flock, one shepherd; title: 8. A "house full of snakes and scorpions"; title: 9. Parallel lives; title: 10. Dangerous times : 1556-1568; title: 11. The Granada pragmatic; title: 12. "A dirty little war"; title: 13. Defeat and punishment; title: pt. III. Catastrophe; title: 14. The great fear; title: 15. "The vilest of people"; title: 16. Toward expulsion; title: 17. "An imminent danger" : 1598-1609; title: 18. The "agreeable holocaust"; title: 19. Secrecy and deception; title: 20. A perfect conclusion? 1611-1614; title: 21. The reckoning.