Morisco Knights in Renaissance Spain : The Granada Venegas Family in History and Memory (Studies in Early Modern European History)

Terry-Roisin, Elizabeth

Manchester University Press（2026/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526194244

Full Description

How does a Morisco enter the Spanish nobility? This book reveals the cultural strategies through which a family of converts from Islam to Christianity overcame limpieza de sangre laws, rose in social status, avoided King Philip III's Morisco expulsions of 1609-14, and achieved a noble title. Drawing on archival sources from both Spain and Italy to re-create the original family archive, this book follows the Granada Venegas family from Granada, to Madrid, to the dusty Andalucían town of Campotéjar, of which they became Marquises, and finally to Italy. Their descendants would serve as Doges of Genoa in the eighteenth century.

Contents

Introduction
Prologue: Allies of the frontier and the new Morisco elite
1 Gothic architecture and chivalric ambitions in Christian Granada
2 The Renaissance in Granada
3 Earning knighthood
4 Courtly striving: Becoming a titled noble
5 An archive and a garden in Genoa and the memory of the Granada Venegas family
Conclusion: Morisco knights in Renaissance Spain
Afterword
Appendices
Bibliography