Forbidden Passages : : Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America / / Karoline P. Cook.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish authorities restricted emigration to the Americas to those who could prove they had been Catholic for at least three generations. In doing so, they hoped to instill religious orthodoxy in the colonies and believed Muslim converts, or Moriscos,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Early Modern Americas
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 5 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Who Were the Moriscos?
- 2. Into the Atlantic
- 3. Forbidden Crossings
- 4. "These Hidden Heretics"
- 5. Healers and Diviners
- 6. "Polvos del Gran Turco"
- 7. Honor, Lineage, Ovandina
- 8. Images of Muslims and Moriscos in Spanish America
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments