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11%OFFDavid Coleman - Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492–1600 - 9780801478833 - V9780801478833
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Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492–1600

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Description for Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492–1600 Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14, 4 maps, 6 black & white halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; HBJD; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.

Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada—Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula—surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492. Over the following century, Spanish state and Church officials, along with tens of thousands of Christian immigrant settlers, transformed the formerly Muslim city into a Christian one.

With constant attention to situating the Granada case in the broader comparative contexts of the medieval reconquista tradition on the one hand and sixteenth-century Spanish imperialism in the ... Read more

Despite the failure to assimilate the moriscos, Granada's status as a frontier Christian community under construction fostered among much of the immigrant community innovative religious reform ideas and programs that shaped in direct ways a variety of church-wide reform movements in the era of the ecumenical Council of Trent (1545–1563). Coleman concludes that the process by which reforms of largely Granadan origin contributed significantly to transformations in the Church as a whole forces a reconsideration of traditional "top-down" conceptions of sixteenth-century Catholic reform.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801478833
SKU
V9780801478833
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About David Coleman
David Coleman is Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University.

Reviews for Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492–1600
David Coleman seeks to bridge the gap between local and institutional history in his study of the transformation of the Spanish city of Granada in the century after its conquest by Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492, by asking when and how Granada became a Christian city. To answer these questions, Coleman takes his readers on a far-flung trip ... Read more

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