Visions of Deliverance : : Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean / / Mayte Green-Mercado.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Green-Mercado, Mayte,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.) :; 1 halftone, 3 maps

In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado 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, Green-Mercado 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. Visions of Deliverance 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliterations and Citations -- Introduction -- 1. Christian Visionary or Muslim Prophet? Re-Creating Identities in Late Spanish Islam -- 2. The Return of Muslim Granada: Prophecy and Martyrdom in the Alpujarras Revolt (1568-1570) -- 3. Ottoman Rome: Apocalyptic Prophecies in the Mediterranean (1570-1580) -- 4. "The Grand Morisco Conspiracy": Prophecy and Rebellion Plots in Valencia and Aragon (1570-1582) -- 5. Prophetic Fabrications of a Morisco Informant: Gil Pérez and the Moriscos of Valencia -- 6. Prophecy as Diplomacy: The Moriscos and Henry IV of France -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: First Prognostication of the War of Granada -- Appendix B: Second Prognostication of the War of Granada -- Appendix C: Third Prognostication of the War of Granada -- Appendix D: Prophecy of Fr. Juan de Rokasiya -- Appendix E: Account of the Scandals That Will Take Place at the End of Times in the Island of Spain -- Appendix F: Prophecy of St. Isidore -- Appendix G: Plaint of Spain -- Appendix H: Muḥammad's Prophecy about Spain -- Bibliography -- Index