“Should I Stay or Should I Go”: How Spain’s Religious Minorities Were Able to Survive in the Early Modern Period

Authors

Ryan C. Tepperman, The College of WoosterFollow

Abstract

The topic I’m investigating concerns the religious minorities of Spain in the Early Modern period. These groups are the Moriscos, who were forcibly converted, and were later exiled. This is important to this field of study because there is not much scholarship on this type study in this subject. What I’m doing in this project is looking closely at the experience of these two groups, and their similarities in conversion, diaspora, and and exile. Another large and important aspect to this project is the language that these groups spoke and/or wrote because they contributed to their experience as outsiders in their own land.

Advisor

Mirza, Sarah

Second Advisor

Cope, Brian

Department

Religious Studies; Spanish

Recommended Citation

Tepperman, Ryan C., "“Should I Stay or Should I Go”: How Spain’s Religious Minorities Were Able to Survive in the Early Modern Period" (2024). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 10955.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/10955

Disciplines

Religion | Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature

Keywords

Morisco, Converso, Diaspora, Exile

Publication Date

2024

Degree Granted

Bachelor of Arts

Document Type

Senior Independent Study Thesis