Patrick J. O'Banion

Patrick O’Banion’s project explores the relationship between Christianity and Islam in early modern Spain. Baptized Muslims, or Moriscos, underwent a coerced conversion to Christianity early in the sixteenth century and a forced expulsion a century later, leading historians to depict Moriscos as homogenous, disempowered, and passive. This project explores the Castilian town of Deza, an example that suggests that Moriscos were variegated and active.