June 16, 2010
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Louis Cardaillac, « Vision des morisques et de leur expulsion, quatre cents ans après », Cahiers de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/cdlm.4945
The views regarding the expulsion of the Moriscos have considerably changed with time, especially in the 20th century. Even if, at the time of the expulsion and up to the beginning of the 20th century, some voices have risen to denounce the injustice to which the Moriscos had been subjected, most historians have sought justifications for that political decision expressing their approval. Starting the 1950’s, historians tried to understand what had really happened, drawing their conclusions from archive documents. The views put forth are very often those of « committed » people. On the occasion of the fourth centennial of the expulsion, many new publications were added to the important already existing literature on the subject. One historical view considers the expulsion of the Moriscos, among many other things, as if men, here the Spanish, were unable to accept otherness and draw lessons from the past. Many Moriscos descendants are requesting the Spanish State to officially recognize the tragedy experienced by these Spanish people and symbolically repeal the expulsion decree, just as they did for the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492