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After Conversion

Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-09-15
Mått155 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt844 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCatholic Christendom, 1300-1700
Antal sidor464
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004324312

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Mercedes García-Arenal is a Research professor at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CCHS-CSIC, Madrid) and PI of the CORPI project. She is a cultural historian of the Early Modern Muslim West (Islam in the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb) and has published extensively on religious minorities, processes of conversion, messianism, millenarianism, and the Spanish Inquisition. Her best known book was written with Gerard A. Wiegers, A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew between Catholic and Protestant Europe (2003), first published in Spanish (1999) and translated into Arabic, Italian and Dutch. She is co-editor of The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain: A Mediterranean Diaspora (2014) and co-author of The Orient in Spain: Converted Muslims, the Forged Lead Books of Granada and the Rise of Orientalism (2013).

List of figuresAcknowledgementsNotes on contributors0. IntroductionMercedes García-ArenalPart I: Biblical Culture, Jewish Antiquities and New Forms of Sacred History1. Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist HistoryAdam G. Beaver2. Biblical Translations and Literalness in Early Modern SpainFernando Rodríguez Mediano3. Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of SpainValeria López Fadul4. The Search for Evidence: The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of TrentCécile Vincent-CassyPart II: Iberian Polemics, Readings of the Qurʾān and the Rise of European Orientalism5. Textual Agnogenesis and the Polysemy of the Reader: Early Modern European Readings of Qur’ānic EmbryologyPier Mattia Tommasino6. A Witness of Their Own Nation: On the Influence of Juan AndrésRyan Szpiech7. Authority, Philology and Conversion under the Aegis of Martín GarcíaTeresa Soto González and Katarzyna K. Starczewska8. Polemical Transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and their Impact in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth CenturyGerard A. WiegersPart III: Conversion and Perplexity9. Assembling Alumbradismo: The Evolution of a Heretical ConstructJessica J. Fowler10. Doubt in Fifteenth-Century IberiaStefania Pastore11. Mi padre moro, yo moro: The Inheritance of Belief in Early Modern IberiaMercedes García-Arenal12. Tropes of Expertise and Converso Unbelief: Huarte de San Juan’s History of MedicineSeth Kimmel13. True Painting and the Challenge of HypocrisyFelipe PeredaBibliographyGeneral Index