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Subject(s)

• Moriscos—Clothing—Iberian Peninsula—History—16th century [Browse]
• Moriscos—Clothing—Iberian Peninsula—History—17th century [Browse]
• Moriscos—Iberian Peninsula—Ethnic identity—History—16th century [Browse]
• Moriscos—Iberian Peninsula—Ethnic identity—History—17th century [Browse]
• Clothing and dress—Spain [Browse]
• Iberian Peninsula—Ethnic relations—History—16th century [Browse]
• Iberian Peninsula—Ethnic relations—History—17th century [Browse]
• Iberian Peninsula—Social life and customs—16th century [Browse]
• Iberian Peninsula—Social life and customs—17th century [Browse]

Series

• Toronto Iberic ; 26. [More in this series]
• Toronto Iberic ; 26 [More in this series]

Summary note

"In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely a cultural remnant from the Islamic period, but an artefact that conditioned discourses of nobility and social preeminence. In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources: archival, legal, literary, and visual documents, as well as tailoring books, equestrian treatises, and festival books to reveal the currency of Moorish clothing in early modern Iberian society. Irigoyen-García's insightful and nuanced analyses of Moorish clothing production and circulation shows that as well as being a sign of status and a marker of nobility, it also served to codify social tensions by deploying apparent Islamophobic discourses. Such luxurious value of clothing also sheds light on how sartorial legislation against the Moriscos was not only a form of cultural repression, but also a way to preclude their full integration into Iberian society. Moors Dressed as Moors challenges the traditional interpretations of the value of Moorish clothing in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain and how it articulated the relationships between Christians and Moriscos."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-303) and index.

Contents

• Part one: "Morisma nueva de Christianos": Iberian Christian Moorish clothing
• Moors at court
• Moorish clothing and nobility
• Unlawful Moorishness
• Lope's Moors: self-fashioning and resentment
• Part two: Moorishness in the eye of the beholder: Moriscos as dressed bodies
• Policing Moriscos in sixteenth-century Granada
• Searching for the Iberian Moorish Morisco
• Moriscos performing as Moors
• Moriscos as theatrical bodies
• Conclusions.

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ISBN

• 9781487501600 ((cloth))
• 1487501609

LCCN

2017394068

OCLC

961007569

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