1st Edition
Bad Christians, New Spains Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World
By Byron Ellsworth Hamann
Copyright 2020
356 Pages
57 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
356 Pages
57 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
356 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book centers on two inquisitorial investigations, both of which began in the 1540s. One involved relations of Europeans and Native Americans in the Oaxacan town of Yanhuitlán (in New Spain, today’s Mexico). The other involved relations of Moriscos (recent Muslim converts to Catholicism) and Old Christians (people with deep Catholic ancestries) in the Mediterranean kingdom of Valencia (in the... Read more
Introduction 1.Ashes and Silkworms 2.Geographies of Discord 3. Catholic Catholicisms 4. The Poverty of Economy 5. Ruination 6. The Excavation of the Dead 7. Chronologies at War Conclusion: Conversion, reduction, and early modern empire Epilogue
Biography
Byron Ellsworth Hamann is Hanna Kiel Fellow at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy.
