After Conversion : : Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity / / edited by Mercedes García-Arenal.

• Superior document: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 Series
• TeilnehmendeR: García-Arenal, Mercedes,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 463 pages) :; color illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist History /; 2 Biblical Translations and Literalness in Early Modern Spain /; 3 Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of Spain /; 4 The Search for Evidence: The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of Trent /; 5 Textual Agnogenesis and the Polysemy of the Reader: Early Modern European Readings of Qurʾānic Embryology /; 6 A Witness of Their Own Nation: On the Influence of Juan Andrés /; 7 Authority, Philology and Conversion under the Aegis of Martín García /; 8 Polemical Transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and Their Impact in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century /; 9 Assembling Alumbradismo: The Evolution of a Heretical Construct /; 10 Doubt in Fifteenth-Century Iberia /; 11 Mi padre moro, yo moro: The Inheritance of Belief in Early Modern Iberia /; 12 Tropes of Expertise and Converso Unbelief: Huarte de San Juan’s History of Medicine /; 13 True Painting and the Challenge of Hypocrisy /; Printed Sources and Bibliography /; Index /; Backlist.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004324321
• Access: Open access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mercedes García-Arenal.

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.