Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern Spain

he consensus among historians has long been that the Moriscos of Spain made little or no attempt to assimilate to the majority Christian culture around them and that this apparent obduracy made their expulsion between 1609 and 1614 both necessary and inevitable. This book sets out to challenge that view via a detailed study of the Moriscos of the Campo de Calatrava and in particular of the town of Villarrubia before during and after the expulsions.