Popularizing Anti-Semitism in early modern Spain and its empire : Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contra Judios (1674) / edited by François Soyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soyer, François, author.

Series:

Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 54.

The medieval and early modern Iberian world ; volume 54

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Torrejoncillo, Francisco de, active 1670--Translations into English.

Torrejoncillo, Francisco de.

Torrejoncillo, Francisco de, active 1670.

Antisemitism--Spain--History--17th century--Sources.

Antisemitism.

Antisemitism--Spain--History--17th century.

History.

Spain.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxv, 319 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English text and translation with Spanish selections.

Summary:

This book charts the history and influence of the most vitriolic and successful anti Semitic polemic ever to have been printed in the early modern Hispanic world and offers the first critical edition and translation of the text into English. First printed in Madrid in 1674, the Centinela contra Judíos ('Sentinel against the Jews') was the work of the Franciscan Francisco de Torrejoncillo, who wrote it to defend the mission of the Spanish Inquisition, to call for the expansion of discriminatory racial statutes and, finally, to advocate in favour of the expulsion of all the descendants of converted Jews from Spain and its empire. Francisco de Torrejoncillo combined the existing racial, theological, social and economic strands within Spanish anti-Semitism to demonize the Jews and their converted descendants in Spain in a manner designed to provoke strong emotional responses from its readership. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section 1 A History and Analysis of the Centinela Contra Judíos

1 Seventeenth-Century Spain and its 'Jewish Problem': The Centinela contraJudios and its Historical Context 3

2 Religion and Blood: 'Religious Anti-Semitism' in Early Modern Spain 19

3 Authorship, History and Impact of the Centinela contra judíos 47

4 Anti-Semitic Propaganda and Pedagogy: Fear Mongering in the Centinela contra Judíos 75

Conclusion 99

Section 2 Translation of the Centinela Contra Judíos

Foreword to the Translation 105

Introductory Poem 107

Prologue 109

1 How the Jews are, and always have been, arrogant and liars 111

2 That the Jews are, and have been, traitors 117

3 How the Jews came to be disdained and humbled 139

4 How the Jews are persecutors of our Holy Catholic Faith 145

5 That those who favour Jews because of the benefit that they receive in return will never come to a good end. Nor will they prosper with them 161

6 Why the Jews should not be trusted, nor should any faith be placed in their deeds 175

7 Regarding the anxiety with which the Jews await the coming of the Messiah 185

8 How the Jews, wherever they may be, stick together and form a Mystical Body 197

9 Why they were called Hebrews, Israelites and Jews and why and how, in ancient times, they came to be called Marranos 205

10 How the Jews, in addition to being opposed to our Holy Faith, are our mortal enemies 219

11 Regarding the signs by which Divine Providence differentiates the Jews 237

12 How the Jews are restless, vainglorious and seditious and ordinarily sow discord wherever they are 251

13 How the Hebrews do not presently possess any honour, or nobility whatsoever, and they lost that which they possessed with the death of Christ 263

14 Regarding the mercy with which our Mother Church treats the Jews, and will continue to treat them, and how far its obligations extend 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-313) and index.

Contains:

Torrejoncillo, Francisco de, active 1670. Centinela contra Judios. English.

ISBN:

9789004250475

9004250476

9004268871

9789004268876

OCLC:

869881285