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OverviewIn 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-Garca 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-Garca'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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Javier Irigoyen-GarciaPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781487501600ISBN 10: 1487501609 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 05 April 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: ""Moors dressed as Moors"" Part 1. ""Morisma nueva de Christianos"": Iberian Christian Moorish Clothing 1. Moors at Court 2. Moorish Clothing and Nobility 3. Unlawful Moorishness 4. Lope’s Moors: Self-Fashioning and Resentment Part 2. Moorishness is in the Eye of the Beholder: Moriscos as Dressed Bodies 5. Policing Moriscos in Sixteenth-Century Granada 6. Searching for the Iberian Moorish Morisco 7. Moriscos Performing as Moors 8. Moriscos as Theatrical Bodies Conclusions Bibliography"ReviewsIrigoyen-Garcia's study amplifies with scholarly rigor our understanding of early modern Iberian cultural politics in ways that resonate with our own cultural locations as scholars at a time of heightened ethnic and national tensions. -- Israel Burshatin, Haverford College * Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Vol 43 no 1 * Irigoyen'Garcia's book is a much-needed corrective to existing studies on early modern Spanish dress, which tend to undermine the diversity of Morisco cultures and their sartorial practices, which, in many cases, were not that distinguishable from others in their local context. This is a must read for any scholar interested in better appreciating the complex relationship between dress, social status, and ethnicity in early modern Iberian. I will certainly assign it in future graduate courses on early modern cultures, as it contributes not only to discussions on clothing, but also to the construction of Iberian identities more broadly speaking. -- Christina H. Lee, Princeton University * Renaissance Quarterly, vol 71 4, Winter 2018 * This is an interesting and useful book for readers who are interested in the understanding of clothes beyond aesthetics. -- Laura Perez Hernandez * The Journal of Dress History, vol 2 3, Autumn 2018 * Author InformationJavier Irigoyen-García is an associate professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His previous work, The Spanish Arcadia, is also published by the University of Toronto Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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