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Parallel Histories: Muslims and Jews in Inquisitorial Spain

Parallel Histories: Muslims and Jews in Inquisitorial Spain

Amelang, James S.

Paperback

IslamJudaismSpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0807154105
ISBN13: 9780807154106
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Dec 9 2013
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

The distinct religious culture of early modern Spain -- characterized by religious unity at a time when fierce civil wars between Catholics and Protestants fractured northern Europe -- is further understood through examining the expulsion of the Jews and suspected Muslims. While these two groups had previously lived peaceably, if sometimes uneasily, with their Christian neighbors throughout much of the medieval era, the expulsions brought a new intensity to Spanish Christian perceptions of both the moriscos (converts from Islam) and the judeoconversos (converts from Judaism). In Parallel Histories, James S. Amelang reconstructs the compelling struggle of converts to coexist with a Christian majority that suspected them of secretly adhering to their ancestral faiths and destroying national religious unity in the process.

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