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Title After conversion : Iberia and the emergence of modernity / edited by Mercedes García-Arenal.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 463 pages) : color illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-450) and index.
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 -- 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 -- 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.
Summary "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." --back cover.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Jews -- Conversion to Christianity -- Spain.
Jews -- Conversion to Christianity.
Spain.
Christian converts from Islam -- Spain.
Christian converts from Islam.
Jews -- Spain -- History -- Expulsion, 1492.
Muslims -- Spain -- History -- 15th century.
Muslims.
History.
Chronological Term 15th century
1400-1499
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author García-Arenal, Mercedes, editor.
Garci⁺ѓa-Arenal, Mercedes, editor.
Other Form: Print version: After conversion. Leiden : Brill, 2016 9789004324312 (OCoLC)951954698
ISBN 9789004324329 (electronic book)
9004324321 (electronic book)
9789004324312
9004324313
9004324321
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004324329