The Moriscos of Spain: Their Conversion and Expulsion

by Henry Charles Lea

$250 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XII, 463, 1 pp. Original cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. Fascinating work in which Henry Charles Lea examines the expulsion of the Moriscos and what he believes to be the cause. A Morisco was a converted Christian inhabitant of Spain and Portugal of Muslim heritage. Over time the term was used in a pejorative sense applied

• Binding: Hardcover

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