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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Interfaith relations
This book discusses the "long fifteenth century" in Iberian
history, between the 1391 pogroms and the forced conversions of
Aragonese Muslims in 1526, a period characterized by persecutions,
conversions and social violence, on the one hand, and cultural
exchange, on the other. It was a historical moment of unstable
religious ideas and identities, before the rigid turn taken by
Spanish Catholicism by the middle of the sixteenth century; a
period in which the physical and symbolic borders separating the
three religions were transformed and redefined but still remained
extraordinarily porous. The collection argues that the aggressive
tone of many polemical texts has until now blinded historiography
to the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, above
all in dialogue and cultural transfer in later medieval Iberia.
Contributors are Ana Echevarria, Gad Freudenthal, Mercedes
Garcia-Arenal, Maria Laura Giordano, Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Eleazar
Gutwirth, Felipe Pereda, Rosa M. Rodriguez Porto, Katarzyna K.
Starczewska, John Tolan, Gerard Wiegers, and Yosi Yisraeli.
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