Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Early Years -- Newcomers in western Europe -- Into Iberia -- Of convivencia and conflict -- 2 Under One God -- Changing the rules58 royal authority44 law and order44 and faith -- The Catholic Monarchs8217 1499 ordinance and its reiterations -- Vagabondage and the gypsies -- 3 The Road to the Sea -- Exclusion -- Philip II and the manning of Spain8217;s galleys -- 4 Years of Crisis -- War44 famine44 and pestilence in late sixteenth45;century Castile -- The moriscos and the gypsies -- 5 Representations -- The 1619 consulta44 the arbitristas44 and the gypsies -- The gypsies in Spanish literature -- 6 Purging the Body Politic -- The royal ordinances of 1619 and 1633 -- Sedentarization and strategies for survival -- Philip IV and the manning of Spain8217;s galleys -- 7 The Spanish Church and the Gypsies -- Inquisition -- Sanctuary -- 8 The Failure of the Laws and the Last Habsburg -- The failures of anti45;gypsy legislation -- Tightening the noose58 the late seventeenth century -- 9 The Bourbon Period -- Forging a modern state -- Crackdown -- 8216;Enlightened despotism8217;58 towards reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Last Page.
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Drawing extensively on the author's archival research, this is the first major study in English of the first three and a half centuries in Spain of a people, its 'gitanos', who, despite theirDrawing extensively on the author's archival research, this is the first major study in English of the first three and a half centuries in Spain of a people, its 'gitanos', who, despite theirDrawing extensively on the author's archival research, this is the first major study in English of the first three and a half centuries in Spain of a people, its 'gitanos', who, despite their