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This book discusses the “long fifteenth century” in Iberian history, between the 1391 pogroms and the forced conversions of Aragonese Muslims in 1526, a period characterized by persecutions, conversions and social violence, on the one hand, and cultural exchange, on the other. It was a historical moment of unstable religious ideas and identities, before the rigid turn taken by Spanish Catholicism by the middle of the sixteenth century; a period in which the physical and symbolic borders separating the three religions were transformed and redefined but still remained extraordinarily porous. The collection argues that the aggressive tone of many polemical texts has until now blinded historiography to the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, above all in dialogue and cultural transfer in later medieval Iberia.
Contributors are Ana Echevarría, Gad Freudenthal, Mercedes García-Arenal, Maria Laura Giordano, Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Eleazar Gutwirth, Felipe Pereda, Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto, Katarzyna K. Starczewska, John Tolan, Gerard Wiegers, and Yosi Yisraeli.
Contributors are Ana Echevarría, Gad Freudenthal, Mercedes García-Arenal, Maria Laura Giordano, Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Eleazar Gutwirth, Felipe Pereda, Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto, Katarzyna K. Starczewska, John Tolan, Gerard Wiegers, and Yosi Yisraeli.
This book discusses the “long fifteenth century” in Iberian history, between the 1391 pogroms and the forced conversions of Aragonese Muslims in 1526, a period characterized by persecutions, conversions and social violence, on the one hand, and cultural exchange, on the other. It was a historical...
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Mercedes García-Arenal is Full Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain), a position she has held since 1990. Her research focuses on the religious history of Iberia and the Muslim West, particularly on religious minorities: conversion, polemics, messianism, religious dissidence. She is Principal Investigator of the Synergy project EuQu.
Gerard Wiegers is Full Professor of History of Religions and Comparative Religion at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the Mudejar and Morisco history and religious life and on the history of Muslim and Jewish minorities in Europe in general. He is, in cooperation with Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, preparing a critical edition of the Granada Lead Books.
Ryan Szpiech is Associate Professor of Spanish and Judaic Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published on medieval polemical literature, the history of religious conversion, and the cultural significance of translation between Arabic, Hebrew, and the Romance Languages in the later Middle Ages.
Gerard Wiegers is Full Professor of History of Religions and Comparative Religion at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the Mudejar and Morisco history and religious life and on the history of Muslim and Jewish minorities in Europe in general. He is, in cooperation with Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, preparing a critical edition of the Granada Lead Books.
Ryan Szpiech is Associate Professor of Spanish and Judaic Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published on medieval polemical literature, the history of religious conversion, and the cultural significance of translation between Arabic, Hebrew, and the Romance Languages in the later Middle Ages.
Mercedes García-Arenal is Full Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain), a position she has held since 1990. Her research focuses on the religious history of Iberia and the Muslim West, particularly on religious minorities: conversion, polemics, messianism, religious dissi...
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