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Creating Conversos
Author | : Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila |
Publsiher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2018-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780268103248 |
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In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government positions. Rather than acting as alienated and marginalized subjects, the conversos were able to craft new identities and strategies not just for survival but for prospering in the most adverse circumstances. Martínez-Dávila provides an extensive, elaborately detailed case study of the Carvajal–Santa María clan from its beginnings in late fourteenth-century Castile. By tracing the family ties and intermarriages of the Jewish rabbinic ha-Levi lineage of Burgos, Spain (which became the converso Santa María clan) with the Old Christian Carvajal line of Plasencia, Spain, Martínez-Dávila demonstrates the family's changing identity, and how the monolithic notions of ethnic and religious disposition were broken down by the group and negotiated anew as they transformed themselves from marginal into mainstream characters at the center of the economies of power in the world they inhabited. They succeeded in rising to the pinnacles of power within the church hierarchy in Spain, even to the point of contesting the succession to the papacy and overseeing the Inquisitorial investigation and execution of extended family members, including Luis de Carvajal "The Younger" and most of his immediate family during the 1590s in Mexico City. Martinez-Dávila offers a rich panorama of the many forces that shaped the emergence of modern Spain, including tax policies, rivalries among the nobility, and ecclesiastical politics. The extensive genealogical research enriches the historical reconstruction, filling in gaps and illuminating contradictions in standard contemporary narratives. His text is strengthened by many family trees that assist the reader as the threads of political and social relationships are carefully disentangled.
The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond
Author | : Kevin Ingram |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2021-01-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004447349 |
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Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity (mostly under duress) in late Medieval Spain. Converso and Moriscos Studies examines the manifold cultural implications of these mass convertions.
The Converso s Return
Author | : Dalia Kandiyoti |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781503612440 |
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Five centuries after the forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Catholicism, stories of these conversos' descendants uncovering long-hidden Jewish roots have come to light and taken hold of the literary and popular imagination. This seemingly remote history has inspired a wave of contemporary writing involving hidden artifacts, familial whispers and secrets, and clandestine Jewish ritual practices pointing to a past that had been presumed dead and buried. The Converso's Return explores the cultural politics and literary impact of this reawakened interest in converso and crypto-Jewish history, ancestry, and identity, and asks what this fascination with lost-and-found heritage can tell us about how we relate to and make use of the past. Dalia Kandiyoti offers nuanced interpretations of contemporary fictional and autobiographical texts about crypto-Jews in Cuba, Mexico, New Mexico, Spain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey. These works not only imagine what might be missing from the historical archive but also suggest an alternative historical consciousness that underscores uncommon convergences of and solidarities within Sephardi, Christian, Muslim, converso, and Sabbatean histories. Steeped in diaspora, Sephardi, transamerican, Iberian, and world literature studies, The Converso's Return illuminates how the converso narrative can enrich our understanding of history, genealogy, and collective memory.
Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World
Author | : Francois Soyer |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2019-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004395602 |
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In Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred, François Soyer offers the first detailed historical analysis of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Spain, Portugal and their overseas colonies between 1450 and 1750.
Convivencia and Medieval Spain
Author | : Mark T. Abate |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2018-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783319964812 |
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This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F. Glick. Using a wide array of innovative methodological approaches, these essays offer insights on areas of medieval Iberian history that have been of particular interest to Glick: irrigation, the history of science, and cross-cultural interactions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. By bringing together original research on topics ranging from water management and timekeeping to poetry and women’s history, this volume crosses disciplinary boundaries and reflects the wide-ranging, gap-bridging work of Glick himself, a pivotal figure in the historiography of medieval Spain.
The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2009-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789047428978 |
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Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity (mostly under duress) in late medieval Spain. Converso and Moriscos Studies examines the manifold cultural implications of these mass convertions.
The Early Modern Hispanic World
Author | : Kimberly Lynn,Erin Kathleen Rowe |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107109285 |
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This book engages with new ways of thinking about boundaries of the early modern Hispanic past, looking at current scholarly techniques.
The Theologian and the Empire A Biography of Jos de Acosta 1540 1600
Author | : Andrés I. Prieto |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2024-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004680869 |
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Although Jesuit contributions to European expansion in the early modern period have attracted considerable scholarly interest, the legacy of José de Acosta (1540–1600) is still defined by his contributions to natural history. The Theologian and the Empire presents a new biography of Acosta, focused on his participation in colonial and imperial politics. The most important Jesuit active in the Americas in the sixteenth century, Acosta was fundamentally a political operator. His actions on both sides of the Atlantic informed both Peruvian colonial life and the Jesuit order at the dawn of the seventeenth century.