Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain - Kevin Ingram Kartoniert (TB)

This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers but as Christian humanists mystics and evangelists who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice merit and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on a journey from the late fourteenth-century conversions and the first blood purity laws (designed to marginalize conversos) through the early sixteenth-century Erasmian and radical mystical movements to a Counter-Refor mation environment in which conversos become the advocates for pacifism and concordance. His account ends at the court of Philip IV where growing intolerance towards Madrid's converso courtiers is subtly attacked by Spain's greatest painter Diego Velázquez in his work Los Borrachos . Finally Ingram examines the historiography of early modern Spain in which he argues the converso reform phenomenon continues to be underexplored.