Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Magnier, Grace

Title Pedro de Valencia and the Catholic apologists of the expulsion of the Moriscos : visions of Christianity and kingship / by Grace Magnier
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xiii, 424 pages) : illustrations
Series The medieval and early modern Iberian world, 0569-1934 ; v. 38
Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 38.
Contents Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I The Catholic Apologists; Chapter One Spain's Perception of its Own Predominant Role in Christendom in the Early Seventeenth Century; Chapter Two Santiago and Spain's Perceived Pre-eminence among Christian Nations; Chapter Three The Catholic Apologists of the Expulsion of the Moriscos: Anti-Islamic Propaganda; Chapter Four Guilt by Association: Anti-Islamic Invective; Part II Pedro de Valencia; Chapter Five Pedro de Valencia: Biblical Scholar, Humanist and Social Critic
Chapter Six Pedro de Valencia, Royal ChroniclerChapter Seven Pedro de Valencia's Vision of a 'Caste-Free' Society; Chapter Eight Pedro de Valencia's 'Tratado acerca de los moriscos'; Chapter Nine 'El Tratado acerca de los moriscos' and Pedro de Valencia's Personal Plea to Philip III seen within the Framework of Seventeenth-Century Theories of Kingship; Chapter Ten Pedro de Valencia's Notion of Kingship: 'El Buen Pastor'; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary The Spanish Moriscos, Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity, were expelled by Philip III between 1609 and 1614. Subsequently, writers known as Catholic Apologists wrote justifying the event. Pedro de Valencia, humanist, biblical scholar, jurist and royal Chronicler, condemned expulsion. Both Apologists and Pedro de Valencia made their case by invoking Divine Providence: the former contended that millenarian prophecies and apocalyptic visions were signs of divine warning beforehand and of approval afterwards; Valencia urged Philip III to act as a shepherd king, arguing that Divine Providen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-419) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Valencia, Pedro de, 1555-1620.
SUBJECT Valencia, Pedro de, 1555-1620 fast
Valencia, Pedro de. swd
Subject Catholic Church -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Moriscos -- History
Church and state -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
HISTORY.
Church and state
Kings and rulers -- Religious aspects
Moriscos
Religiƶse Toleranz
Rassenfrage
SUBJECT Spain -- Kings and rulers -- Religious aspects
Spain -- History -- House of Austria, 1516-1700. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126077
Subject Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004189409
9004189408
9789004182882
9004182888