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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]
• 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-García 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.

Bibliographic references

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

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Other title(s)

Clothing, social distinction, and ethnicity in early modern Iberia

ISBN

• 9781487513580 ((electronic bk.))
• 1487513585 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

988041765

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