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Blood and Faith: the Purging of Muslim Spain, Matthew Carr
Another excerpt on the continuities between race ideology and reconquista, this time guest starting Bartolomeo de las Casas (he's not woke in this one bros 😔)
-Blood and Faith: the Purging of Muslim Spain, Matthew Carr
The consequences of the dispersion of granadan muslims; there was a whole section about the Alpujarras rebellion that this decree inspired, which I for whatever reason didn't take quotes from when i was reading the book; long story short it was a disastrous war, and the few triumphal stories i remember (for example, the baptism registry which was used to call attendance at the beginning of every mass was seized by muslim peasants, the priest tied to a post at the center of town, and the names called one by one so that each peasant could take revenge on him personally) wind up outweighed by the reprisals, looting, and exterminations carried out by royal soldiers (which, due to manpower shortages, became basically just royally sanctioned bandits and marauders)
Blood and Faith: the Purging of Muslim Spain, Matthew Carr
The political grounds for the heightened oppression of muslim converts, and more instances of racial law imposed in spain
Blood and Faith: the Purging of Muslim Spain, Matthew Carr
Islam and anything considered "moorish" was banned by the castillian monarchs - here the author lists some examples, decades after the conquest of Grenada, of the "underground" culture, secret muslim leaders, illegal texts written in arabic, etc.
Blood and Faith: the Purging of Muslim Spain, Matthew Carr
Explanation of the socioeconomic status of Spanish Muslims after the reconquista
Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, Matthew Carr
A bit of continuity between the reconquista and the colonization of the new world
Blood and Faith: the Purging of Muslim Spain - Matthew Carr
page 30-31 is legit why i bought this book; i was curious to see if there were political or ideological antecedents to Spanish colonial policy that were developed in/after the reconquista, and sure enough there were