Moors Dressed as Moors : Clothing, Social Distinction and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia /

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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 visu...

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Main Author: Irigoyen-García, Javier, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo [New York] : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Manners and customs.
Ethnic relations.
HISTORY / Renaissance
HISTORY > Europe > Spain & Portugal.
Morisques > Identite ethnique > Iberique, Peninsule > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Morisques > Identite ethnique > Iberique, Peninsule > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Moriscos > Iberian Peninsula > Ethnic identity > History > 17th century.
Moriscos > Iberian Peninsula > Ethnic identity > History > 16th century.
Moriscos > Clothing > Iberian Peninsula > History > 17th century.
Moriscos > Clothing > Iberian Peninsula > History > 16th century.
Europe > Iberian Peninsula.
Iberique, Peninsule > Moeurs et coutumes > 17e siecle.
Iberique, Peninsule > Moeurs et coutumes > 16e siecle.
Iberique, Peninsule > Relations interethniques > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Iberique, Peninsule > Relations interethniques > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Iberian Peninsula > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Iberian Peninsula > Social life and customs > 16th century.
Iberian Peninsula > Ethnic relations > History > 17th century.
Iberian Peninsula > Ethnic relations > History > 16th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (360 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781487513580

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