IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 818: Converso Entanglements in 15th-Century Castile
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Bert Carlstrom, School of History Queen Mary University of London Thomas Hendrik Kaal, Historisches Seminar, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rosa Vidal Doval, Queen Mary, University of London |
| Paper 818-a | Entanglement through Separation: The Religious Instruction of Conversos in 15th-Century Castile (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 818-b | A Secret Network?: Castilian Conversos and the Spread of Popular Averroism (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Philosophy, Religious Life |
| Paper 818-c | Seville's Inquisition Network, c. 1474-c. 1504 (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | This session analyses network structures in the world of the Castilian Conversos. It investigates how the presence of the New Christian population in 15th-century Castile fostered new interdependencies within the religious, philosophical, and socio-political spheres. The first paper examines how the religious instruction of Jewish converts and their descendants resulted in further entanglement between Judaism and Christianity. The second explores linkages between the Conversos and emerging concepts of philosophical rationalism. The third paper uncovers how the workings of the Spanish Inquisition against the New Christians correlated with existing networks of patronage and kinship. |