Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Names
- Introduction
- 1 The Inquisition and the Campo de Calatrava in the Sixteenth Century
- 2 Literacy, Education, and Social Mobility
- 3 Justice and the Law
- 4 From Heretic to Presbyter: The Herrador Family, 1540–1660
- 5 Official Rhetoric versus Local Reality: Propaganda and the Expulsion of the Moriscos
- 6 Opposition to the Expulsion of the Moriscos
- 7 Those Who Stayed
- 8 Those Who Returned
- 9 Rewriting History
- 10 Good and Faithful Christians: The Inquisition and Villarrubia in the Seventeenth Century
- 11 Assimilation: Reality or Fiction?
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - The Inquisition and the Campo de Calatrava in the Sixteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Names
- Introduction
- 1 The Inquisition and the Campo de Calatrava in the Sixteenth Century
- 2 Literacy, Education, and Social Mobility
- 3 Justice and the Law
- 4 From Heretic to Presbyter: The Herrador Family, 1540–1660
- 5 Official Rhetoric versus Local Reality: Propaganda and the Expulsion of the Moriscos
- 6 Opposition to the Expulsion of the Moriscos
- 7 Those Who Stayed
- 8 Those Who Returned
- 9 Rewriting History
- 10 Good and Faithful Christians: The Inquisition and Villarrubia in the Seventeenth Century
- 11 Assimilation: Reality or Fiction?
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Five Towns (‘Cinco Villas’) of Aldea del Rey, Almagro, Bolaños, Daimiel, and Villarrubia de los Ojos in the Campo de Calatrava had relatively large Mudéjar populations, which had lived in the area for centuries. From the twelfth century onwards the whole region came under the control of the military Order of Calatrava, a control which only started to break down at the end of the fifteenth century, when the Order passed into royal hands, and most crucially in the early sixteenth century, when certain towns were sold off by the Crown to private individuals. What particularly distinguished these five towns was the existence in each of them of an aljama, or self-governing community of Moors, which worked in close harmony with the local Commander of the Order and which paid an annual tribute to the Crown. The existence of an aljama is itself a good indication of the strength of the Moorish, later Mudéjar, population. Unfortunately, for this period it is all but impossible to provide reliable figures for the population of these towns, although Villarrubia (for which we have some patchy information) may have had a Mudéjar population of some 40 to 55 households (c. 150–200 people) at the end of the fifteenth century, representing about 15–17 per cent of the total population. A number sufficient to be noticed, but not enough to create fear among the Christian population.
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- Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern SpainThe Moriscos of the Campo de Calatrava, pp. 13 - 36Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014