After conversion : Iberia and the emergence of modernity /
After conversion : Iberia and the emergence of modernity /
"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 t...
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| Language: | English |
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2016.
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| Series: | Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.
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Table of 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 of 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.
- 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.