{"product_id":"after-conversion-iberia-and-the-emergence-of-modernity-9789004324312","title":"After Conversion: Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most specially with the relationship between origins and faith. It also deals with the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and on the production of knowledge and addresses questions such as dissimulation, dissidence, religious doubt and unbelief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One, Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions by Adam G. Beaver is the winner of the 2017 Bishko Prize for best article on medieval Iberian history published by a North American scholar. The prize is awarded by the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of figures Acknowledgements Notes on contributors  0. Introduction Mercedes García-Arenal  Part I: Biblical Culture, Jewish Antiquities and New Forms of Sacred History  1. Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist History Adam G. Beaver  2. Biblical Translations and Literalness in Early Modern Spain Fernando Rodríguez Mediano  3. Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of Spain Valeria López Fadul  4. The Search for Evidence: The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of Trent Cécile Vincent-Cassy  Part II: Iberian Polemics, Readings of the Qurʾān and the Rise of European Orientalism  5. Textual Agnogenesis and the Polysemy of the Reader: Early Modern European Readings of Qur’ānic Embryology Pier Mattia Tommasino  6. A Witness of Their Own Nation: On the Influence of Juan Andrés Ryan Szpiech  7. Authority, Philology and Conversion under the Aegis of Martín García Teresa Soto González and Katarzyna K. Starczewska  8. Polemical Transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and their Impact in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century Gerard A. Wiegers  Part III: Conversion and Perplexity  9. Assembling Alumbradismo: The Evolution of a Heretical Construct Jessica J. Fowler  10. Doubt in Fifteenth-Century Iberia Stefania Pastore  11. Mi padre moro, yo moro: The Inheritance of Belief in Early Modern Iberia Mercedes García-Arenal  12. Tropes of Expertise and Converso Unbelief: Huarte de San Juan’s History of Medicine Seth Kimmel  13. True Painting and the Challenge of Hypocrisy Felipe Pereda  Bibliography General Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210690093399,"sku":"9789004324312","price":199.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/after-conversion-iberia-and-the-emergence-of-modernity-9789004324312","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}