![]() ![]() This chapter summarizes the modern question of race and racialization and investigates how medieval people worked to “naturalize” their own histories of social conflict. It analyzes whether the Jews were a separate race or they were simply a different religious ethnicity or caste. This chapter examines the issue of race in the Middle Ages, focusing on the case of Spain and its Jews. PART I I SPAIN: CONQUISTA AND RECONQUISTA This chapter also suggests that the secreting of the women allowed Hindu and Muslim ritual practices to coexist so that the two cultures could be connected and that the mixing of cultures took place behind the mystifying screens of the harem itself. It argues that the increasing number and invisibility of women in the imperial harem in Mughal India marked the changing claims by the sultan to a differentiating divinity. This chapter examines the role of gender and age in the construction of domesticity in the Mughal Empire. Hierarchies of Age and Gender in the Mughal Construction of Domesticity and Empire - Ruby LalĭOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226307244.003.0003 This chapter also contends that the Ottoman rulers ever married out to other royal dynasties and this endogamous and self-perpetuating unit controlled an expanding polyglot empire, which allowed the conquered kingdoms to retain their various cultural differences unconverted and so remained densely hybrid in nature. It argues that the Ottomans used enslaved, converted Christians from the borders of their empire to create an elite ruling caste with which the Ottomans continuously intermarried for six centuries of remarkably stable rule. ![]() This chapter explores the self-fashioning of the Ottoman dynasty and the unusual pattern of recruitment employed in the construction of the Ottoman ruling class. It also explains that many of the work in this volume were first presented as part of a conference entitled “Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires” held at Duke University in April 2003. ![]() This chapter also describes the three simultaneous events that led to the creation of the Black Legend. It suggests that the Black Legend was created when Spain's enemies took Spain's own internal debates about its identity and “purity of blood” and the morality of its behavior in the New World and constructed an image of the Spanish as violent and close to barbarians. This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the Black Legend. ![]()
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