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Parables of coercion : conversion and knowledge at the end of Islamic Spain

By Seth , Kimmel

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2015
ISBN
022627828X, 978-0-226-27828-5, 978-0-226-27831-5
DOI
10.7208/chicago/9780226278315.001.0001
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1296313 bytes)
Pages
239\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Catholic ChurcMoriscos. Muslims -- Spain. Jews -- Conversion to

Description

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unlike previous books on conversion in early modern Spain, however, Parables of Coercion focuses not on the experience of the converts themselves, but rather on how questions surrounding conversion drove religious reform and scholarly innovation. In its careful examination of how Spanish authors transformed the history of scholarship through debate about forced religious conversion, Parables of Coercion makes us rethink what we mean by tolerance and intolerance, and shows that debates about forced conversion and assimilation were also disputes over the methods and practices that demarcated one scholarly discipline from another.

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