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Charles V
Chivalric culture
Chivalric culture in early modern Spain
Conversion
court culture
Doge
Early modern Spain
Early modern Spain and Italy
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Family archives
Ferdinand and Isabella
forthcoming
Genoa
Granada
Granada Venegas family
Jesuits
knighthood
limpieza de sangre
loyalty
Madrid
Mediterranean
Mediterranean history
military orders
military service
Morisco assimilation
Morisco expulsion from Spain
Morisco identity
Morisco Knights
Morisco nobility
Moriscos
Moriscos in Spain
Nasrid Granada
Nasrids
nobility
Noble identity
Renaissance
Renaissance culture
Renaissance Spain
Vassalage
Product details
- ISBN 9781526194244
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Elizabeth A. Terry-Roisin is Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University
