Morisco Knights in Renaissance Spain : The Granada Venegas family in history and memory
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Early Modern European History
ISBN-10
1526194244
ISBN-13
9781526194244
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 4th, 2026
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
615 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.30 x 1.90 cms
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This book argues that Renaissance culture and chivalric culture were both central to how “nobility” was sought and defined in early modern Spain. It is the first monograph in English to examine the history and self-fashioning of the famous Granada Venegas family, Morisco knights from Granada, and to analyse the remnants of their family archive in Genoa. -- .
How does a Morisco enter the Spanish nobility? This book reveals the cultural strategies through which a family of converts from Islam to Christianity overcame limpieza de sangre laws, rose in social status, avoided King Philip III’s Morisco expulsions of 1609-14, and achieved a noble title. Drawing on archival sources from both Spain and Italy to re-create the original family archive, this book follows the Granada Venegas family from Granada, to Madrid, to the dusty Andalucían town of Campotéjar, of which they became Marquises, and finally to Italy. Their descendants would serve as Doges of Genoa in the eighteenth century. -- .
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