Marginal Voices

Studies in Converso Literature of Medieval and Golden Age Spain
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21440-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aronson-Friedman, Amy I.

Kaplan, Gregory B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors.vii

Editors’ Introduction to Marginal Voices: Studies in Converso Literature of Medieval and Golden Age Spain. 1
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.19
Gregory B. Kaplan
Inquisition and the Creation of the Other. 43
Ana Benito
Conflicted Identity and Colonial Adaptation in Petrus Alfonsi’s Dialogus contra judaeos and Disciplina clericalis.69
David A. Wacks
Convivencia and Conversion in Gonzalo de Berceo’s “El judïezno”.91
Patricia Timmons
Against the Pagans: Alonso de Cartagena, Francisco de Vitoria, and Converso Political Theology.117
Bruce Rosenstock
Pragmatism, Patience and the Passion: The Converso Element in the Summa de paciencia (1493) and the Thesoro de la passion (1494). 141
Laura Delbrugge
Text and Context: A Judeo-Spanish Version of the Danza de la muerte. 161
Michelle Hamilton
The Converso and the Spanish Picaresque Novel.183
Deborah Skolnik Rosenberg
Cervantes, Don Quijote, and the Hebrew Scriptures: The Case of the Jacob and Joseph Stories. 207
Kevin S. Larsen
Anti-Semitic Discourse or the Voice of a Disguised Converso in a Seventeenth-Century Spanish Treatise. 233
Luis G. Bejarano

Index.249

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Aronson-Friedman, Ph.D. (2000) in Hispanic Linguistics and Medieval Spanish Literature, Temple University, is Associate Professor of Spanish and ESOL at Valdosta State University. She has published extensively on the conversos of medieval Spain.
Gregory B. Kaplan, Ph.D. (1994) in Medieval Spanish Philology, University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee. He has published a number of studies on converso literature including The Evolution of ‘Converso’ Literature (UP of Florida, 2002).