Banning Moorish dress aimed to erase Morisco identity through outward conformity

Evidence

Spain undertook certain measures to put a stop to this, among others there was the decision of Queen Juana, daughter of the Catholic Monarchs, who commanded that they should abandon their Moorish dress, because she could see how effective this would be in making them forget that they were Moors. She gave them six years to wear out the clothes they already had made, and then another ten years went in dissimulation, but finally in 1518 the Emperor Charles when he came to reign in Castile, commanded that the ban should be applied, although that same year at the supplication of the Moriscos he suspended it during his good pleasure. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 294 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Whereas I have been informed that certain women who are Old Christians and live and reside in the city of Granada and in other cities and towns of this kingdom, forgetful of the general instructions to the effect that the newly converted should leave aside their Moorish dress and clothing, and should go about dressed in the Christian manner, themselves dress in the Moorish fashion, and cover themselves with almalafas,so that, in addition to the bad example which they set in this way to the newly converted, they, thinking that they are covered up, commit certain excesses and evil actions whereby Our Lord is ill served, and their own honor is jeopardized. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 377 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The topos of Saracen paganism inverted the direction of dress-up; Old Christian women adopted Moorish dress in Granada, alarming the crown; Spanish literary taste for noble Moorish tales peaked during active forced assimilation of Moriscos (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Forcing the Moriscos to abandon Moorish dress was a deliberate assimilation strategy #corroborates (0.97) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 294
• Old Christian women adopted Moorish veils partly to conceal illicit behavior. #complicates (0.73) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 377