{"title":"Christian Visionary or Muslim Prophet?","authors":"Mayte Green-Mercado","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501741463.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501741463.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyzes the relationship between prophecy and the delineation of the contours of Morisco identity after the forced conversion of Muslims in the Kingdom of Castile that began as a result of the rebellion of Granada in 1499. The uprising was sparked by the intervention of the archbishop of Toledo, Francisco Ximenez de Cisneros. The arrival of the archbishop in Granada in the summer of 1499 quickly saw the forced conversion of “elches,” former Christian converts to Islam. This had taken place in contravention of the Granada Capitulations that regulated the rendition of the Muslim Naṣrid Kingdom to Ferdinand and Isabella after its final conquest on January 2, 1492. The conversion of “elches” was met with the resistance of the Muslim populations in the city of Granada, which then extended to the countryside.","PeriodicalId":213892,"journal":{"name":"Visions of Deliverance","volume":"400 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126671857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Grand Morisco Conspiracy”","authors":"Mayte Green-Mercado","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501741463.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501741463.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyzes the most significant Morisco rebellion plot in the kingdoms of Valencia and Aragon after 1570. It highlights Morisco agency in their dealings with the Ottomans. This chapter also traces the circulation of the vizierial letter among some Morisco communities of Aragon and Valencia and analyzes its content alongside the testimonies of a Morisco spy for the Inquisition named Luis Moreno. Between 1576 and 1583 Moreno warned the inquisitors about a plan to take up arms that had been devised by members of several prominent Morisco families of Aragon, in conjunction with other wealthy Morisco families of Valencia. Moreno's accounts to the inquisitors reveal the existence of rifts and fractures within Morisco communities.","PeriodicalId":213892,"journal":{"name":"Visions of Deliverance","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125223056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epilogue","authors":"Mayte Green-Mercado","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501741463.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501741463.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter concludes with a reflection on the Morisco expulsion and the ways in which Moriscos read their banishment from Iberia in a providentialist and apocalyptic light, much as Christians interpreted the tolling Bell of Velilla. It distinctly traces apocalyptic narrative of Morisco history as it was lived and experienced by crypto-Muslim Moriscos throughout the sixteenth century. It has shown that many Moriscos articulated their political aspirations in the form of apocalyptic prophecies that promised a political victory of Islam in Iberia, and within the framework of a divinely ordained and impending end of time. Apocalyptic expectations were present in Iberia among Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike throughout the middle ages, but it was particularly from the fall of Granada in 1492 and the Spanish Muslims' forced conversion to Catholicism between 1501 and 1526, that this apocalyptic paradigm took force and became central to the identity and politics of a significant number of Moriscos. In their interpretation, the conquest of Granada was seen as a cataclysmic event.","PeriodicalId":213892,"journal":{"name":"Visions of Deliverance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120991466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501741470-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501741470-020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213892,"journal":{"name":"Visions of Deliverance","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133341894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Note on Transliterations and Citations","authors":"Mayte Green-Mercado","doi":"10.7591/9781501741470-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501741470-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213892,"journal":{"name":"Visions of Deliverance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131329484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501741470-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501741470-020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213892,"journal":{"name":"Visions of Deliverance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114344639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3. Ottoman Rome: Apocalyptic Prophecies in the Mediterranean (1570–1580)","authors":"Mayte Green-Mercado","doi":"10.7591/9781501741470-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501741470-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213892,"journal":{"name":"Visions of Deliverance","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129972927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appendix G: Plaint of Spain","authors":"Mayte Green-Mercado","doi":"10.7591/9781501741470-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501741470-017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213892,"journal":{"name":"Visions of Deliverance","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128958399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}