Visions of Deliverance

Mayte Green-Mercado

Description

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.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Southern Europe
• Spain
• History of religions
• History of Europe
• Spain (groupe)
• Islam
• Portugal
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 janvier 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501741470
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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VïSïONS OF DEïVERANCE

VïSïONS OF DEïVERANCE

MORI SCOS AND T HE POL I T I CS OF PROPHECY I N T HE E ARLY MODE RN ME DI T E RRANE AN

M ay te G r e e n  M e r c a d o

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Names: Green-Mercado, Mayte, author. Tîte: Vîsîons o deîverance : Morîscos and the poîtîcs o  prophecy în the eary modern Medîterranean / Mayte  Green-Mercado. Descrîptîon: ïthaca, [New York] : Corne Unîversîty Press,  209. | ïncudes bîbîographîca reerences and îndex. ïdentîIers: CCN 20902096 (prînt) | CCN 209988  (ebook) | ïSBN 9785074463 (coth) |  ïSBN 9785074487 (epub) | ïSBN 9785074470 (pd ) Subjects: CSH: Cathoîc Church—Reatîons—ïsam. |  Morîscos—Prophecîes.| Morîscos—Medîterranean  Regîon—Hîstory—6th century. | Musîms—Spaîn—  Hîstory—6th century. | Prophecy—ïsam. |  Prophecy—Poîtîca aspects—Spaîn. | ïsam—Spaîn—  Hîstory—6th century. | ïsam—Reatîons—Cathoîc  Church. | Spaîn—Hîstory—Prophecîes. CassîIcatîon: CC DP04 .G74 209 (prînt) | CC DP04  (ebook) | DDC 305.6/9709460903—dc23 C record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/20902096 C ebook record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov  /209988

Cover îmage: Vîcente Carducho,La expusîón de os morîscos(c. 627), detaî. Museo de Prado. Used by permîssîon.

The afaîrs o Spaîn were so conused, men were so perpexed, that ît seemed îke ît was a heaveny scourge, and that another destructîon and end woud come over these kîngdoms, worse than ît had been în the tîmes o the Kîng Don Rodrîgo. They beîeved în omens; they cast predîctîons and prognostîcatîons threatenîng great mîsortune. Some demons învented who knows what prophecîes, whîch some saîd were by St. ïsîdore, archbîshop o Sevîe, others by Fr. Juan de Rocacesa [John o Rupescîssa], and one o Merîn and other wîse men, and o St. John Damascene [John o Damascus], and weepîng or paînts that St. ïsîdore crîed over Spaîn. And în a o them [there were] so many bad sîgns o caamîtîes and destructîon or Spaîn that peopewereterrîIedandwentaboutdazed. Prudencîo de Sandova,Hîstorîa de a vîda y hechos de emperador Caros V(604), part , book 6, chapter 2

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Acknowedmentsîx Note on Transîteratîons and Cîtatîonsxî

 ïntroductîon   . Chrîstîan Vîsîonary or Musîm Prophet? Re-Creatîng ïdentîtîes în ate Spanîsh ïsam 9  2. The Return o Musîm Granada: Prophecy and Martyrdom în the Apujarras Revot (568–570) 64  3. Ottoman Rome: Apocayptîc Prophecîes în the Medîterranean (570–580) 00  4. “The Grand Morîsco Conspîracy”: Prophecy and Rebeîon Pots în Vaencîa and Aragon (570–582) 30  5. Prophetîc Fabrîcatîons o a Morîsco ïnormant: Gî Pérez and the Morîscos o Vaencîa 65  6. Prophecy as Dîpomacy: The Morîscos and Henry ïV o France 24  Epîogue 237

Appendîx A: Fîrst Pronostîcatîon o the War o Granada249 Appendîx B: Second Pronostîcatîon o the War o Granada254

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Appendîx C: Thîrd Pronostîcatîon o the War o Granada258 Appendîx D: Prophecy o Fr. Juan de Rokasîya263 Appendîx E: Account o the Scandas That Wî Take Pace at the End o Tîmes în the Isand o Spaîn267 Appendîx F: Prophecy o St. Isîdore27 Appendîx G: Paînt o Spaîn274 Appendîx H: Muḥammad’s Prophecy about Spaîn277 Bîbîoraphy28 Index303

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