Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain

Bad Blood and Faith from Alonso de Cartagena to Diego Velázquez

Kevin Ingram (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XX, 370 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-40430-7 (ISBN)

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This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on a journey from the late fourteenth-century conversions and the first blood purity laws (designed to marginalize conversos), through the early sixteenth-century Erasmian and radical mystical movements, to a Counter-Reformation environment in which conversos become the advocates for pacifism and concordance. His account ends at the court of Philip IV, where growing intolerance towards Madrid's converso courtiers is subtly attacked by Spain's greatest painter, Diego Velázquez, in his work, Los Borrachos . Finally, Ingram examines the historiography of early modern Spain, in which he argues the converso reform phenomenon continues to be underexplored.

Kevin Ingram is Professor of History at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain.

1 Introduction.- 2 From Toledo to Alcalá.- 3 From Alcalá to Seville and Beyond.- 4 The Way Out of Trent.- 5 Four Humanists.- 6 Diego Velázquez and the Subtle Art of Protest.- 7 The Converso Returns.

"Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain: Bad Blood and Faith ... sets out to account for the experience of those Spanish Jews, perhaps one-third of the total Spanish Jewish population, who converted to Catholicism after the Reconquista. ... An outstanding study of its subject, Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain looks to be advancing an agenda setting argument." (Crawford Gribben, New Books network, newbooksnetwork.com, February 07, 2019)

Erscheinungsdatum	10.03.2020
Zusatzinfo	XX, 370 p. 12 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Schlagworte	Christianity • Diego Velazquez • Fifteenth century, sixteenth century, seventeenth • Fifteenth century, sixteenth century, seventeenth century • Humanism • Judaism • Nation-Building • Pure blood legislation • Socio-religious reform • Spanish History
ISBN-10	3-030-40430-7 / 3030404307
ISBN-13	978-3-030-40430-7 / 9783030404307
Zustand	Neuware