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The 1609 Expulsion of the Moriscos in Early Modern British Thought

The 1609 Expulsion of the Moriscos in Early Modern British Thought Keynote Address South~Central Renaissance Conference Hot Springs, Arkansas March 7, 2009 Nabil Matar In September 1609 an edict for the expulsion of Christianized Muslim Spaniards was implemented by King Philip III. The majority of somewhere between three and eight hundred thousand Moriscos fled to Tunisia, Aigeria, and Morocco, while so me crossed into France but were later expelled, and others migrated via Genoa to the Eastern Mediterranean and settled in Istanbul. There were also Moriscos who turned to Protestant countries: A handful went to Holland (Kaplan 12), while others turned to the English for help, hoping that the latter would cooperate with them because of their mutual anti-Catholicism and because many Spanish Protestant books published in London were smuggled into Spain via regions with large Morisco populations. Notwithstanding the magnitude of the expulsion, not a single play or poem, not a single sermon or pamphlet in seventeenth-century England recalls, let alone reflects on, that tragedy. Although polemies and theological disputations between the Moriscos and Christians continued on the continent (Cardaillac), the OED includes only one 1629 entry on the Moriscos (James Wadsworth), ignoring extensive allusions in contemporary diplomatie and commercial writings. Instead, the OED focuses on entries about http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

The 1609 Expulsion of the Moriscos in Early Modern British Thought

Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 35 (2): 132 – Dec 2, 2009

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© Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0098-2474
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10.1163/23526963-90000375
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Keynote Address South~Central Renaissance Conference Hot Springs, Arkansas March 7, 2009 Nabil Matar In September 1609 an edict for the expulsion of Christianized Muslim Spaniards was implemented by King Philip III. The majority of somewhere between three and eight hundred thousand Moriscos fled to Tunisia, Aigeria, and Morocco, while so me crossed into France but were later expelled, and others migrated via Genoa to the Eastern Mediterranean and settled in Istanbul. There were also Moriscos who turned to Protestant countries: A handful went to Holland (Kaplan 12), while others turned to the English for help, hoping that the latter would cooperate with them because of their mutual anti-Catholicism and because many Spanish Protestant books published in London were smuggled into Spain via regions with large Morisco populations. Notwithstanding the magnitude of the expulsion, not a single play or poem, not a single sermon or pamphlet in seventeenth-century England recalls, let alone reflects on, that tragedy. Although polemies and theological disputations between the Moriscos and Christians continued on the continent (Cardaillac), the OED includes only one 1629 entry on the Moriscos (James Wadsworth), ignoring extensive allusions in contemporary diplomatie and commercial writings. Instead, the OED focuses on entries about

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