Popularizing Anti-Semitism in early modern Spain and its empire : Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contra Judios / Francois Soyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soyer, François, author.

Series:

Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; Volume 54.

Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 1569-1934 ; Volume 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Antisemitism.

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

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

Torrejoncillo, Francisco de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / François Soyer

Seventeenth-Century Spain and its ‘Jewish Problem’: The Centinela contra Judíos and its Historical Context / François Soyer

Religion and Blood: ‘Religious Anti-Semitism’ in Early Modern Spain / François Soyer

Authorship, History and Impact of the Centinela contra Judíos / François Soyer

Anti-Semitic Propaganda and Pedagogy: Fear Mongering in the Centinela contra Judíos / François Soyer

Conclusion / François Soyer

Foreword to the Translation / François Soyer

Introductory Poem / François Soyer

Prologue / François Soyer

How the Jews are, and always have been, arrogant and liars / François Soyer

That the Jews are, and have been, traitors / François Soyer

How the Jews came to be disdained and humbled / François Soyer

How the Jews are persecutors of our Holy Catholic Faith / François Soyer

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 / François Soyer

Why the Jews should not be trusted, nor should any faith be placed in their deeds / François Soyer

Regarding the anxiety with which the Jews await the coming of the Messiah / François Soyer

How the Jews, wherever they may be, stick together and form a Mystical Body / François Soyer

Why they were called Hebrews, Israelites and Jews and why and how, in ancient times, they came to be called Marranos / François Soyer

How the Jews, in addition to being opposed to our Holy Faith, are our mortal enemies / François Soyer

Regarding the signs by which Divine Providence differentiates the Jews / François Soyer

How the Jews are restless, vainglorious and seditious and ordinarily sow discord wherever they are / François Soyer

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

Regarding the mercy with which our Mother Church treats the Jews, and will continue to treat them, and how far its obligations extend / François Soyer

Appendix / François Soyer

Bibliography / François Soyer

Index / François Soyer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

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

ISBN:

90-04-26887-1

OCLC:

873140967

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004268876 DOI