Gypsies of Early Modern Spain, 1425-1783 Book

Acknowledgements     ix
Introduction     x
The Early Years     1
Newcomers in western Europe     3
Into Iberia     4
Of convivencia and conflict     10
Under One God     20
Changing the rules: royal authority, law and order, and faith     20
The Catholic Monarchs' 1499 ordinance and its reiterations     24
Vagabondage and the gypsies     28
The Road to the Sea     35
Exclusion     35
Philip II and the manning of Spain's galleys     41
Years of Crisis     51
War, famine, and pestilence in late sixteenth-century Castile     51
The moriscos and the gypsies     55
Representations     55
The 1619 consulta, the arbitristas, and the gypsies     65
The gypsies in Spanish literature     77
Purging the Body Politic     86
The royal ordinances of 1679 and 1633     86
Sedentarization and strategies for survival     92
Philip IV and the manning of Spain's galleys     100
The Spanish Church and the Gypsies     105
Inquisition     106
Sanctuary     118
The Failure of the Laws and the LastHabsburg     128
The failures of anti-gypsy legislation     128
Tightening the noose: the late seventeenth century     139
The Bourbon Period     143
Forging a modern state     143
Crackdown     152
'Enlightened despotism': towards reform     157
Conclusion     164
Notes     167
Bibliography     199
Index     210