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9 - Patterns of Morisco persecution in northern Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2009

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Los moriscos de Aragon no valian nada, pues consentian la Inquisición, que con una docena de hombres se atrevaría apoderarse della y hacerles levantar como los de Granada.

Inq., Libro 988, fol. 355 (1575)

Son gente muy astuta y ladinos, como estan en puerta y … entran en Aragon muy de ordinario, y tenemos mucha sospecha que estan … enseñados de los moriscos que ay alii reconciliados.

Report on Moriscos of Arcos, 1575 (quoted by Carrasco, in Melanges de la Casa Velazquez, 22 [1986], p. 221).

Los deste lugar jamas usaron el habito de moros ni la lengua, antes bien enseñan a sus hijos de scrivir y leer a la spañola; y como han procurado lo susodicho, hizieron lo demas que es necesario para qualquier pefecto christiano.

Gea petition to Suprema, 1566 (British Library, Egerton Ms. 1833, fol. 56).

After 1570, the Kingdom of Valencia contained the largest concentration of Moriscos in Spain, and the Kingdom of Aragon ranked a distant second. During the sixteenth century, the Morisco population grew rapidly in both areas, reaching 14,000 households in Aragon and more than twice that in Valencia by 1609. Moriscos comprised at most one fifth of Aragon's population, compared to one third of Valencia's. At their compulsory conversion in 1525, and again at their expulsion in 1609, Valencia's Moriscos staged desperate risings against the policies of Castile's government. Although Aragon's Moriscos muttered threats, they never rose in defense of their faith.

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Frontiers of Heresy
The Spanish Inquisition from the Basque Lands to Sicily
, pp. 189 - 208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1990

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