Creating Christian Granada
Subtitle: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492-1600
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780801441110
Subjects: Christianity; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; History of religion; c 1500 to c 1600; Granada (Spain : Reino); Europe - France; History - General History; Jews; History: World; Spain; History; Christianity - History - General; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Ethnic relations; Spanish Conquest, 1476-1492; Christians; Granada (Kingdom); Muslims
First sentence: Juan de la Torre was one of the thousands of Christian immigrants who came to Granada seeking opportunity and fortune in the decades after the city's 1492.
Description: "Creating Christian Granada provides a detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. With constant attention to situating the Granada case in the broader comparative contexts of the medieval reconquista tradition on the one hand and sixteenth-century Spanish imperialism in the Americas on the other, Coleman carefully charts the changes in the conquered city's social, political, religious, and physical landscapes. In the process, he sheds light on the local factors contributing to the emergence of tensions between the conquerors and Granada's formerly Muslim, "native" morisco community in the decades leading up to the crown-mandated explusion of most of the city's moriscos in 1569-1570"--Jacket.