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Like wheat to the miller: community, convivencia, and the construction of Morisco identity in sixteenth-century Aragon

Mary Halavais

Year: 2007, c2001.

Publisher: Columbia University Press.

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table of contents

Title Page

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgments

Part I: Teruel

1: Teruel in the Fifteenth Century

[Epigraph]

Introduction

The City, Morerias and Juderias

Property Sales

Sales within the City

Sales in the Countryside

Religious Belief, Toleration, and Contracts

Convivencia

2: The Inquisition Comes to Teruel

[Intro]

The Spanish Inquisition

The Inquisition Arrives in Teruel

Defenses Against the Inquisition

Defining Teruel

[Intro]

Walls and Territory

The Serrania

Good Cities and Bad Cities

Wheat to the Miller

Part II.: The Jiloca Valley

Introduction

3: Birth

Birth and Baptism

Names

Baptism at Home

Births and Population

Childhood

The Child and the Community

4: Marriage

[Intro]

Defining Marriage

Financial Arrangements

Marriage and the Outside World

Old and New Christians

Marriage and the Community

5: Death

[Intro]

Last Wills And Testaments

Poverty, Death and Financial Responsibility

Provisions for Death and Burial

Death as Unpredictable

Aggregate Patterns of Death

The Archbishop's Recommendations

6: Outsiders

[Intro]

Foundlings

Wanderers and Strangers

Warnings From Saragossa

Ansi Viejos Como Nuevos — The Parish Priests' Response

Communion and New Christians

The Church and Communion

7: Business

[Intro]

Property and Improvements

Borrowing and Lending

The Business Community

The Village Council

Borrowing in Times of Crisis

The Butcher, the Grocer, and the Sculptor

Funding the Secular and the Sacred

Irrigation and Water Rights

Litigation and Literacy

Conclusion

Part III.: The Construction of Morisco Identity

8: The Archbishop and the Church in Saragossa

[Intro]

Visitas

The Sacred and the Secular

Education and the Nuevos Convertidos

Old Christians and New Christians

9: The Inquisition

Presence and Power

Constructing a Morisco Identity

From Foreigner to Enemy

10: Moriscos and Nuevos Convertidos

[Intro]

Counting Moriscos

After the Expulsion

Appendices

Appendix 1: New Christians in Burbaguena, 1538 (and a note from 1592)

Appendix 2: Nuevos Convertidos Confessing in Burbaguena, 1581

Appendix 3: Burbaguena's Moriscos In 1610

Notes

1. Teruel in the Fifteenth Century

2. The Inquisition Comes to Teruel

3. Birth

4. Marriage

5. Death

6. Outsiders

7. Business

8. The Archbishop and the Church in Saragossa

9. The Inquisition

10. Moriscos and Nuevos Convertidos

Appendices

Bibliography

Archival Sources

Published Catalogs

Books and Articles

About the Author

reviews

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Like wheat to the miller : community, convivencia, and the construction of Morisco identity in sixteenth-century Aragon / by Mary Halavais.

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Halavais, Mary Hoyt

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Like wheat to the miller : community, convivencia, and the construction of Morisco identity in sixteenth-century Aragon / by Mary Halavais.
Halavais, Mary Hoyt
New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, c2001.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.99006

Subject Headings:

• Moriscos -- Spain -- Aragon -- History -- 16th century
• Aragon (Spain) -- History -- 16th century
• Aragon (Spain) -- Social life and customs -- 16th century

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• Caption title; description based on screen of 2007-10-11.
• Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org.
• Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California at San Diego, 1997.
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