Amy Aronson-Friedman, Ph.D. (2000) in Hispanic Linguistics and Medieval Spanish Literature, Temple University, is Associate Professor of Spanish and ESOL at Valdosta State University. She has published extensively on the conversos of medieval Spain.Gregory B. Kaplan, Ph.D. (1994) in Medieval Spanish Philology, University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee. He has published a number of studies on converso literature including The Evolution of ‘Converso’ Literature (UP of Florida, 2002).

• List of Contributors ...viiEditors’ Introduction to Marginal Voices: Studies in Converso Literature of Medieval and Golden Age Spain ... 1Amy I. Aronson-Friedman and Gregory B. KaplanThe Inception of Limpieza de Sangre (Purity of Blood) and its Impact in Medieval and Golden Age Spain ...19Gregory B. KaplanInquisition and the Creation of the Other ... 43Ana BenitoConflicted Identity and Colonial Adaptation in Petrus Alfonsi’s Dialogus contra judaeos and Disciplina clericalis ...69David A. WacksConvivencia and Conversion in Gonzalo de Berceo’s “El judïezno” ...91Patricia TimmonsAgainst the Pagans: Alonso de Cartagena, Francisco de Vitoria, and Converso Political Theology ...117Bruce RosenstockPragmatism, Patience and the Passion: The Converso Element in the Summa de paciencia (1493) and the Thesoro de la passion (1494) ... 141Laura DelbruggeText and Context: A Judeo-Spanish Version of the Danza de la muerte ... 161Michelle HamiltonThe Converso and the Spanish Picaresque Novel...183Deborah Skolnik RosenbergCervantes, Don Quijote, and the Hebrew Scriptures: The Case of the Jacob and Joseph Stories ... 207Kevin S. LarsenAnti-Semitic Discourse or the Voice of a Disguised Converso in a Seventeenth-Century Spanish Treatise ... 233Luis G. BejaranoIndex...249