Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain Book

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction ix

Prologue: "The End of Spain's Calamities" 1

Part I Conquest to Conversion

1 The Iberian Exception 13

2 The Victors 25

3 The Vanquished 40

4 Broken Promises: Granada 1492-1500 52

5 Rebellion and Conversion 62

6 Faith Triumphant 70

7 The Last Redoubt: Aragon 1520-1526 80

Part II One Flock, One Shepherd

8 A "House Full of Snakes and Scorpions" 93

9 Parallel Lives 104

10 Dangerous Times: 1556-1568 118

11 The Granada Pragmatic 131

12 "A Dirty Little War" 141

13 Defeat and Punishment 153

Part III Catastrophe

14 The Great Fear 167

15 "The Vilest of People" 183

16 Toward Expulsion 202

17 "An Imminent Danger": 1598-1609 215

18 The "Agreeable Holocaust" 233

19 Secrecy and Deception 248

20 A Perfect Conclusion? 1611-1614 265

21 The Reckoning 279

Epilogue: A Warning from History? 293

Notes 309

Bibliography 327

Index 337