| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Benjamin Ehlers. Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568–1614. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 124th series.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 241. $45.00.

How could a virulent racist and cruel xenophobe come to be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church? This is the essential question this book seeks to answer. Well researched and clearly presented, Benjamin Ehlers's study draws us into a vertiginous vortex of "spin" by subsequent biographers, but most notably by Juan de Ribera himself, which eventually led to his beatification and subsequent canonization. In this perennial story of the clash of civilizations, we may well find a parable for our own times.

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