Mayte Green-Mercado, "Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
English | ISBN: 1501741462 | 2020 | 330 pages | EPUB | 754 KB
English | ISBN: 1501741462 | 2020 | 330 pages | EPUB | 754 KB
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.
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