An Arrested Community: Christians of the Girdle in Fifteenth-Century Barcelona
In the early fifteenth-century a group of Christians of the Girdle—Eastern Christians coming from Syria—arrived in Barcelona. In the first decades of their presence in the city they acted as a group, living in the same quarter, adopting a policy of endogamous marriages and establishing a brotherhood...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Medieval encounters
Year: 2016, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 379-426 |
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Brotherhood
economic conditions
marriage
mimicry
Syrian Christians
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| Summary: | In the early fifteenth-century a group of Christians of the Girdle—Eastern Christians coming from Syria—arrived in Barcelona. In the first decades of their presence in the city they acted as a group, living in the same quarter, adopting a policy of endogamous marriages and establishing a brotherhood. But a marked improvement in economic conditions of the newcomers and their descendants, as well as an expansion of their social relationship networks, marked the end of the strong cohesion. It seems, then, that the experience of the Christians of the Girdle must be interpreted primarily as a strategy for survival in the new social environment of Barcelona rather than a deliberate policy of exclusive cultural identity with a view to reproduction of a specific cultural, linguistic, and religious model. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0674 |
| Contains: | In: Medieval encounters
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700674-12342231 |