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
6 - Opposition to the Expulsion of the Moriscos
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
It is not uncommon for the reader of many histories of the expulsion of the Moriscos, both those written at the time and more modern ones, to be left with the impression that the expulsion was an enterprise carried out without opposition, an act accepted both by the Moriscos, who directly suffered from it, and by the rest of the population, which was about to lose its neighbours and, in some cases, its relatives. Nothing could be further from the truth. The expulsion of the Moriscos was contested at all times and by a wide variety of people: the Church (from archbishops to local priests), the nobility (some of them ministers and Councillors of State), local lords, town councils, a large number of individuals willing to support their neighbours, and finally, of course, the Moriscos themselves. And all of them would use all the means set out in the decrees of expulsion to prevent the Moriscos living among them from being expelled, as well as other means never contemplated in the decrees, such as hiding and helping them. In short, they would prevent in any way possible the decrees being fully enforced – exactly what a good neighbour and friend would do, as we see in the memorable scene of Sancho Panza and the Morisco who returns from expulsion, Ricote.
The first signs of the level of opposition that the decrees of expulsion would face began to appear in the early months of 1610, when the expulsion of the Moriscos from New and Old Castile, Extremadura, and Andalusia was being openly discussed.
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- Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern SpainThe Moriscos of the Campo de Calatrava, pp. 123 - 146Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014