Marginal voices : studies in converso literature of medieval and golden age Spain (engelsk)

Del 46 af Medieval and early modern Iberian world

Amy Aronson-Friedman, Gregory B. Kaplan (1966-)

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Summary: This collection of essays reveals the diversity of the impact on late medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature of the socio-religious dichotomy that came to exist between conversos (New Christians), who were perceived as inferior because of their Jewish descent, and Old Christians, who asserted the superiority of their pure Christian lineage.

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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