After Conversion : : Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity /

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After Conversion : : Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity / / 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...

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Superior document:Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700 Series
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Mercedes García-Arenal
  • 1 Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist History / Adam G. Beaver
  • 2 Biblical Translations and Literalness in Early Modern Spain / Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 3 Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of Spain / Valeria López Fadul
  • 4 The Search for Evidence: The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of Trent / Cécile Vincent-Cassy
  • 5 Textual Agnogenesis and the Polysemy of the Reader: Early Modern European Readings of Qurʾānic Embryology / Pier Mattia Tommasino
  • 6 A Witness of Their Own Nation: On the Influence of Juan Andrés / Ryan Szpiech
  • 7 Authority, Philology and Conversion under the Aegis of Martín García / Teresa Soto and Katarzyna K. Starczewska
  • 8 Polemical Transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and Their Impact in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century / Gerard A. Wiegers
  • 9 Assembling Alumbradismo: The Evolution of a Heretical Construct / Jessica J. Fowler
  • 10 Doubt in Fifteenth-Century Iberia / Stefania Pastore
  • 11 Mi padre moro, yo moro: The Inheritance of Belief in Early Modern Iberia / Mercedes García-Arenal
  • 12 Tropes of Expertise and Converso Unbelief: Huarte de San Juan’s History of Medicine / Seth Kimmel
  • 13 True Painting and the Challenge of Hypocrisy / Felipe Pereda
  • Printed Sources and Bibliography / Mercedes García-Arenal
  • Index / Mercedes García-Arenal
  • Backlist.

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