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Title

After conversion : Iberia and the emergence of modernity / edited by Mercedes García-Arenal.

Publication

Leiden : Brill, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

García-Arenal, Mercedes

Description

xii, 463 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"This book examines the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia, where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth, and in this way it explores the fraught relationship between origins and faith. It treats also of the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and the production of knowledge, taking into account how integrating new converts from Judaism and Islam stimulated Christian scholars to confront the converts' sacred texts and created a distinctive peninsular hermeneutics. The book thus assesses the importance of the "Converso problem" in issues such as religious dissidence, dissimulation, and doubt and skepticism while establishing the process by which religious dissidence came to be categorized as heresy and was identified with converts from Judaism and Islam even when Lutheranism was often in the background."

Series Statement

Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700

Uniform Title

Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.

Subjects

• Muslims
• Christian converts from Islam
• Spain
• Jews > Spain > History > Expulsion, 1492
• Muslims > Spain > History > 15th century
• History
• Christian converts from Islam > Spain
• Zwangstaufe
• Jews > Conversion to Christianity > Spain
• 1400-1499
• Mission

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-450) and index.

Terms of Use (note)

• This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.

Contents

Introduction / Mercedes García-Arenal ; PART 1. Biblical Culture, Jewish Antiquities and New Forms of Sacred History. Nebuchadnezzar's Jewish legions: sephardic legends' journey from Biblical Polemic to humanist history / Adam G. Beaver -- Biblical translations and literalness in early modern Spain / Fernando Rodríguez Mediano -- Language as archive: etymologies and the remote history of Spain / Valeria López Fadul -- The search for evidence: the relics of martyred saints and their worship in Cordoba after the Council of Trent / Cécile Vincent-Cassy ; PART 2. Iberian Polemics, Readings fo the Qur'ān and the Rise of European Orientalism. Textual Agnogenesis and the polysemy of the reader: early modern European readings of the Qur'ānic embryology / Pier Mattia Tommasino -- A witness of their own nation: on the influence of Juan Andrés / Ryan Szpiech -- Authority, philology and conversion under the aegis of Martín García / Teresa Soto and Katarzyna K. Starczewska -- Polemical transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and their impact in northern Europe in the seventeenth century / Gerard A. Wiegers ; PART 3. Conversion and Perplexity. Assembling Alumbradismo: the evolution of a heretical construct / Jessica J. Fowler -- Doubt in fifteenth-century Iberia / Stefania Pastore -- Mi padre moro, yo moro: the inheritance of belief in early modern Iberia / Mercedes García-Arenal -- Tropes of expertise and converso unbelief: Huarte de San Juan's history of medicine / Seth Kimmel -- True painting and the challenge of hypocrisy / Felipe Pereda.

Call Number

JFE 17-3430

ISBN

• 9789004324312
• 9004324313

LCCN

2016462020

OCLC

951954698

Title

After conversion : Iberia and the emergence of modernity / edited by Mercedes García-Arenal.

Publisher

Leiden : Brill, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700

Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-450) and index.

Terms Of Use

This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.

Chronological Term

1400-1499

Added Author

García-Arenal, Mercedes, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-3430