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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Mary Halavais. Like Wheat to the Miller: Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in Sixteenth-Century Aragon. Electronic book. New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. Site access $195.00.

The title of Mary Halavais's impressive first book refers to a protest that the city of Teruel made to the Inquisition in 1484. Deciding that they would not submit to inquisitors who had just arrived with plans to begin an investigation of their citizens, the town council sought to explain their opposition. "The Holy Father and the King Our Lord are millers," the council stated, "and their ministers are those who bring the wheat to the mill, and the city is the grain to be milled, and there is good reason for the grain to know whether it will be milled, or threshed, or what will be done with it" (ch. 1, epigraph). In this statement of political philosophy, the town council not only asserted the city's right to know what inquisitors planned to do with its people but also described itself as a homogeneous and unified community. Its citizens were grains of "wheat," clearly as important to the authorities as they were to the community. For ten months, the town council kept inquisitors outside the city, resisting the Inquisition's attempt to disrupt the peace in which Jews, Muslims, and Christians of this community were living together.

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