Moors Dressed As Moors

Javier 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.

"Irigoyen-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) "This is an interesting and useful book for readers who are interested in the understanding of clothes beyond aesthetics."- Laura Pérez Hernández (The Journal of Dress History, vol 2 3, Autumn 2018) "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 book is well supported by a solid theoretical apparatus, primary sources, and a vast bibliography…this well-written book undoubtedly constitutes an essential work on clothing and identity."- Filomena Barros, University of Évora (Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 15) "Moors Dressed as Moors will be of great value to scholars and students seeking to understand the complexity that underpins the history of the Morisco minority in Spain. Moreover, given the current controversies relating to the status and cultural assimilation of Muslim minorities in Europe (controversies that continue to involve debates about clothing), this is research that is still very relevant."- François Soyer, University of New England (The English Historical Review)

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: "Moors dressed as Moors"Part 1. "Morisma nueva de Christianos": Iberian Christian Moorish Clothing1. Moors at Court2. Moorish Clothing and Nobility3. Unlawful Moorishness4. Lope’s Moors: Self-Fashioning and ResentmentPart 2. Moorishness is in the Eye of the Beholder: Moriscos as Dressed Bodies5. Policing Moriscos in Sixteenth-Century Granada6. Searching for the Iberian Moorish Morisco7. Moriscos Performing as Moors8. Moriscos as Theatrical BodiesConclusionsBibliography