Marginal voices [electronic resource] / edited by Amy Aronson-Friedman, Gregory B. Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aronson-Friedman, Amy.

Kaplan, Gregory B., 1966-

Series:

Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 46.

The medieval and early modern Iberian world, 1569-1934 ; v. 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--To 1500--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Spanish literature--Jewish Christian authors--History and criticism.

Christian converts from Judaism--Spain--History.

Christian converts from Judaism.

Spain--Intellectual life--711-1516.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The conversos of late medieval and Golden Age Spain were Christians whose Jewish ancestors had been forced to change faiths within a society that developed a preoccupation with pure Christian lineage. The aims of this book is to shed new light on the cultural impact of this social climate, in which public suspicion of the religious sincerity of conversos became widespread and scrutiny by the Inquisition came to impede social advancement and threaten life and property. The bulk of the essays center on literary works, including lesser known and canonical pieces, which are analyzed by scholars who reveal the heterogeneous nature of textual voices that are informed by an awareness of the marginal status of conversos. Contributors are Gregory B. Kaplan, Ana Benito, Patricia Timmons, David Wacks, Bruce Rosenstock, Laura Delbrugge, Michelle Hamilton, Deborah Skolnik Rosenberg, Kevin Larsen and Luis Bejarano.

Contents:

Editors' introduction to marginal voices : studies in converso literature of medieval and golden age Spain / Amy I. Aronson-Friedman and Gregory B. Kaplan

The inception of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) and its impact in medieval and golden age Spain / Gregory B. Kaplan

Inquisition and the creation of the other / Ana Benito

Conflicted identity and colonial adaptation in Petrus Alfonsi's dialogus contra judaeos and disciplina clericalis / David A. Wacks

Convivencia and conversion in Gonzalo de Berceo's "El judiezno" / Patricia Timmons

Against the pagans : Alonso de Cartagena, Francisco de Vitoria, and converso : political theology / Bruce Rosenstock

Pragmatism, patience and the passion : the converso element in the summa de paciencia (1493) and the thesoro de la passion (1494) / Laura Delbrugge

Text and context : a Judeo-Spanish version of the danza de la muerte / Michelle Hamilton

The converso and the Spanish picaresque novel / Deborah Skolnik Rosenberg

Cervantes, Don Quijote, and the Hebrew scriptures : the case of the Jacob and Joseph stories / Kevin S. Larsen

Anti-semitic discourse or the voice of a disguised converso in a seventeenth-century Spanish treatise / Luis G. Bejarano.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-280-49643-6

9786613591661

90-04-22258-8

OCLC:

777375513

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004222588 DOI