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Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire

Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contra Judíos (1674)

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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This book charts the history and influence of the most vitriolic and successful anti-Semitic polemic ever to have been printed in the early modern Hispanic world and offers the first critical edition and translation of the text into English. First printed in Madrid in 1674, the Centinela contra judíos (“Sentinel against the Jews”) was the work of the Franciscan Francisco de Torrejoncillo, who wrote it to defend the mission of the Spanish Inquisition, to call for the expansion of discriminatory racial statutes and, finally, to advocate in favour of the expulsion of all the descendants of converted Jews from Spain and its empire. Francisco de Torrejoncillo combined the existing racial, theological, social and economic strands within Spanish anti-Semitism to demonize the Jews and their converted descendants in Spain in a manner designed to provoke strong emotional responses from its readership.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-03-07
Mått155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt673 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMedieval and Early Modern Iberian World
Antal sidor322
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004250475

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CONTENTSAcknowledgements … viiAbbreviations … ixList of Illustrations and Maps … xiMaps … xiiIllustrations … xvForeword … xxiSECTION ONEA HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF THE CENTINELA CONTRA JUDÍOS1. Seventeenth-Century Spain and its ‘Jewish Problem’:The Centinela contra Judíos and its Historical Context … 32. Religion and Blood: ‘Religious Anti-Semitism’ in EarlyModern Spain … 193. Authorship, History and Impact of the Centinela contra Judíos … 474. Anti-Semitic Propaganda and Pedagogy:Fear Mongering in the Centinela contra Judíos …75Conclusion … 99SECTION TWOTRANSLATION OF THE CENTINELA CONTRA JUDÍOSForeword to the Translation … 105Introductory Poem … 107Prologue … 1091. How the Jews are, and always have been, arrogantand liars … 1112. That the Jews are, and have been, traitors … 1173. How the Jews came to be disdained and humbled … 1394. How the Jews are persecutors of our Holy Catholic Faith … 1455. That those who favour Jews because of the benefitthat they receive in return will never come to agood end. Nor will they prosper with them … 1616. Why the Jews should not be trusted, nor shouldany faith be placed in their deeds … 1757. Regarding the anxiety with which the Jewsawait the coming of the Messiah … 1858. How the Jews, wherever they may be, sticktogether and form a Mystical Body … 1979. Why they were called Hebrews, Israelites andJews and why and how, in ancient times, theycame to be called Marranos … 20510. How the Jews, in addition to being opposed to our HolyFaith, are our mortal enemies … 21911. Regarding the signs by which Divine Providencedifferentiates the Jews … 23712. How the Jews are restless, vainglorious andseditious and ordinarily sow discord whereverthey are … 25113. How the Hebrews do not presently possess any honour,or nobility whatsoever, and they lost that which theypossessed with the death of Christ … 26314. Regarding the mercy with which our MotherChurch treats the Jews, and will continue totreat them, and how far its obligations extend … 273Appendix … 285Bibliography … 303ndex … 315