Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late Medieval Spain. The Converso and Morisco Studies series examines the implications of these mass conversions for the converts themselves, for their heirs (also referred to as Conversos and Moriscos) and for Medieval and Modern Spanish culture. As the essays in this collection attest, the study of the Converso and Morisco phenomena is not only important for those scholars focusing on Spanish society and culture, but for all academics interested in questions of identity, Otherness, nationalism, religious intolerance and the challenges of modernity.
Kevin Ingram, Ph.D. (2006) in History, University of California San Diego, is Professor of Modern History at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus.
"An important touchstone for scholars working on conversion and religious identity in the Iberian world." - Karoline P. Cook, Royal Holloway, University of London, in: Church History, Vol. 91, No. 4 (December 2022), pp. 921â923
"This volume brings together strenuous and convincing efforts to respond to the difficulties of studying the inner as well as outer histories of two groups largely known through the documents of their persecutors. Its findings provide ample proof that the documentation produced by persecutors can, when applying the proper cautions, shed substantial light on those individuals and groups who ran afoul of the ever more stringent orthodoxy of Counter-Reformation Spain." - James S. Amelang, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Fall 2023), pp. 1174â1176
Introduction
âKevin Ingram
1 The Council of Baselâs âDe Neophytisâ Decree as Immediate Cause of and Permanent Antidote to the Racial Purity Statutes
âCarlos Gilly
2 Reforming the Church and Re-Framing Identity: Converso Prelates and Artistic Patronage in Fifteenth Century Castile
âNicola Jennings
3 Genealogy, Jewish Conversos, and Urban Conflict in Golden Age Spain. The Linajudos
âEnrique Soria Mesa
4 Doctor Constantinoâs Doctrina Cristiana: Divine Compassion and True Faith in the Work of a Sixteenth Century Converso Author
âMichel Boeglin
5 Juan de Malaraâs New-Christian Humanism
âKevin Ingram
6 The Converso Issue and Early Modern Spanish Historiography
âKevin Ingram
7 The Hebrew Bible, Jewish Tradition and the Redefinition of Catholicism in the Sixteenth Century
âFrancisco Javier Perea Siller
8 The Morisco in Mateo Alemánâs OzmÃn and Daraja
âMohamed Saadan
9 Románâs Garden: Places, Spaces, and Religious Practice among the Moriscos of Deza
âPatrick J. OâBanion
10 Morisco Double Resistance
âWilliam P. Childers
12 Serán Siempre Moros? Assessing Conversion During the Expulsion of the Moriscos
âStephanie M. Cavanaugh
Index
All those interested in early modern socio-cultural history, the history and literature of Spain and Portugal, and the history of the Jews and Muslims in Spain and beyond. Keywords: Spain, sixteenth century, religious reform, Conversos, Jews, Moriscos, Muslims, humanism.