The other within : the Marranos : split identity and emerging modernity / Yirmiyahu Yovel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yovel, Yirmiyahu.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Spain--History.

Jews.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Spain.

History.

Crypto-Jews--Iberian Peninsula--Spain--History.

Crypto-Jews.

Jews--Spain--Identity.

Spain--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xviii, 490 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Marranos : split identity and emerging modernity

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Part 1 A Millennium of Jewish Spain

1 Sefarad, the Spanish Jerusalem 3

2 Reconquest and Revival: The Cross Is Back 29

3 Pogroms and Mass Conversions 40

Part 2 Marrano Otherness and Dualities

4 Conversos: The Other Within 57

5 The New Otherness: Duality in Many Faces 78

6 Marrano Mosaic I: Places, Persons, Poems 103

7 The Arias d'Avilas: Hidden Jews or Marrano Dualists? 126

Part 3 The Growing Marrano Problem

8 Enrique the Impotent: Prosperity, Anarchy, and Inquisition on the Horizon 139

9 Ferdinand, Isabella, and the "True Inquisition" 153

10 The Great Expulsion 176

Part 4 Portuguese Marranism Takes Over

11 Trap in Portugal 189

12 Portuguese Inquisition, Pure Blood, and the "Nation" 209

Part 5 New Christian Religions and Spanish Culture

13 A Judaizing Marrano Religion 227

14 New Christians at the Forefront of Spanish Culture 240

15 A Christian Religion of the Interior 246

16 Picaresque Antiheroes 263

Part 6 Dispersion and Modernity

17 Marranos Globalized: The Networks, the "Nation" 287

18 Marrano Mosaic II: Wanderers, Martyrs, Intellectuals, Dissenters 315

19 Marranos and Western Modernity 337

20 Marranos and Jewish Modernity 359

Epilogue: Present-Day Marranos 378

Appendix Trends in the Literature 389.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [457]-476) and index.

ISBN:

9780691135717

0691135711

OCLC:

231587238