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

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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Bibliographic Details
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.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: "Morisma nueva de Christianos": Iberian Christian Moorish clothing
  • Moors at court
  • Moorish clothing and nobility
  • Unlawful Moorishness
  • Lope's Moors: self-fashioning and resentment
  • Part two: Moorishness in the eye of the beholder: Moriscos as dressed bodies
  • Policing Moriscos in sixteenth-century Granada
  • Searching for the Iberian Moorish Morisco
  • Moriscos performing as Moors
  • Moriscos as theatrical bodies
  • Conclusions.