Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 850 g
The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity
Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 850 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-13571-7
Verlag: Princeton University Press
The Marranos were former Jews forced to convert to Christianity in Spain and Portugal, and their later descendents. Despite economic and some political advancement, these "Conversos" suffered social stigma and were persecuted by the Inquisition. In this unconventional history, Yirmiyahu Yovel tells their fascinating story and reflects on what it means for modern forms of identity. He describes the Marranos as "the Other within"--people who both did and did not belong. Rejected by most Jews as renegades and by most veteran Christians as Jews with impure blood, Marranos had no definite, integral identity, Yovel argues. The "Judaizers"--Marranos who wished to remain secretly Jewish--were not actually Jews, and those Marranos who wished to assimilate were not truly integrated as Hispano-Catholics. Rather, mixing Jewish and Christian symbols and life patterns, Marranos were typically distinguished by a split identity. They also discovered the subjective mind, engaged in social and religious dissent, and demonstrated early signs of secularity and this-worldliness. In these ways, Yovel says, the Marranos anticipated and possibly helped create many central features of modern Western and Jewish experience. One of Yovel's philosophical conclusions is that split identity--which the Inquisition persecuted and modern nationalism considers illicit--is a genuine and inevitable shape of human existence, one that deserves recognition as a basic human freedom. Drawing on historical studies, Inquisition records, and contemporary poems, novels, treatises, and other writings, this engaging critical history of the Marrano experience is also a profound meditation on dual identities and the birth of modernity.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Part One: A Millennium of Jewish Spain
Chapter 1: Sefarad, the Spanish Jerusalem 3
Chapter 2: Reconquest and Revival: The Cross Is Back 29
Chapter 3: Pogroms and Mass Conversions 40
Part Two: Marrano Otherness and Dualities
Chapter 4: Conversos: The Other Within 57
Chapter 5: The New Otherness: Duality in Many Faces 78
Chapter 6: Marrano Mosaic I: Places, Persons, Poems 103
Chapter 7: The Arias d'Avilas: Hidden Jews or Marrano Dualists? 126
Part Three: The Growing Marrano Problem
Chapter 8: Enrique the Impotent: Prosperity, Anarchy, and Inquisition on the Horizon 139
Chapter 9: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the "True Inquisition" 153
Chapter 10: The Great Expulsion 176
Part Four: Portuguese Marranism Takes Over
Chapter 11: Trap in Portugal 189
Chapter 12: Portuguese Inquisition, Pure Blood, and the "Nation" 209
Part Five: New Christian Religions and Spanish Culture
Chapter 13: A Judaizing Marrano Religion 227
Chapter 14: New Christians at the Forefront of Spanish Culture 240
Chapter 15: A Christian Religion of the Interior 246
Chapter 16: Picaresque Antiheroes 263
Part Six: Dispersion and Modernity
Chapter 17: Marranos Globalized: The Networks, the "Nation" 287
Chapter 18: Marrano Mosaic II: Wanderers, Martyrs, Intellectuals, Dissenters 315
Chapter 19: Marranos and Western Modernity 337
Chapter 20: Marranos and Jewish Modernity 359
Epilogue Present-Day Marranos 378
Appendix: Trends in the Literature 389
Notes 405
Works Cited 457
Index 477
