Visions of Deliverance

Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Bibliographic Data

ID23540743
AuthorsMayte Green-Mercado
Year2020
Pages328
Publication date2020-01-15
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueVisions of Deliverance (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/cornell/9781501741463.001.0001
OpenAlexW4250012127
Open LibraryOL28727993M
ISBN9781501741463
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This book traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of merchants, Sufis, and other channels of diffusion among Muslims and Christians across the Mediterranean from Constantinople and Venice to Morisco towns in eastern Spain. The movement of these prophecies from the eastern to the western edges of the Mediterranean illuminates strategies of Morisco cultural and political resistance, reconstructing both productive and oppositional interactions and exchanges between Muslims and Christians in the early modern Mediterranean. Challenging a historiography that has primarily understood Morisco apocalyptic thought as the expression of a defeated group that was conscious of the loss of their culture and identity, this book depicts Moriscos not simply as helpless victims of Christian oppression but as political actors whose use of end-times discourse helped define and construct their society anew. The book helps us understand the implications of confessionalization, forced conversion, and assimilation in the early modern period and the intellectual and theological networks that shaped politics and identity across the Mediterranean in this era.

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Historiography · Identity (music) · Identity politics · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Universalism · Vision · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Catholic church · Interfaith relations · Islam · Moriscos · Muslims · Political aspects · Prophecies · Prophecy · Relations · Spain

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