Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Hispanic Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
70,2 (2002) 147-167
Keywords:
Bernáldez, Andrés,
;
Pulgar, Fernando del,
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Inquisition
Abstract:
Contrasts the historiographic approaches of two chroniclers of the pre-expulsion Inquisitional persecution of the Jews and Conversos in Seville. The "Old Christian" Bernáldez took an apocalyptic approach that justified the mission of the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabel as patrons of the Inquisition that justly punished Jews and Judaizers. Although he could not directly question the practices and values that Bernáldez hailed, Pulgar was a "dissident" in that he offered a very different historiography, a secular one that demythified the deeds of monarchs and the Inquisition, and made clear the suffering inflicted by Christian persecution. He aroused compassion for human suffering through his secular, observational approach, which is revealed in his chilling narrative. His defense of the rights and merits of the Conversos is part of his challenge to accepted views of history, religion, and justice.
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