Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas
Angaben zur Quelle:
20,1 (2019) 35-53
Keywords:
Cartagena, Alonso de,
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Political theology Early works to 1800
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Christian converts from Judaism
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Christianity and other religions History To 1500
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Crypto-Jews History
Abstract:
This essay explores a range of works by Alonso de Cartagena, bishop of Burgos from 1435-1456, and places them within the context of fifteenth-century debates about conversos, nobility, and Castilian and Spanish national identities. Through careful attention to the role of Jews and Judaism within Cartagena’s thought, it shows that the bishop worked to forge a Judeo-Christian identity for Spain in which conversos were not simply included or tolerated but required, precisely because of their Jewish lineage, for the Church Militant and the Spanish “nation” to fulfill their divinely-ordained missions. To counter the developing racial logic of opponents to conversos’ integration, Cartagena distinguished between the relative roles of lineage and will in the Jews’ fall from theological nobility. However, the logic of this approach entailed the exclusion of observant Jews, along with “pagans” and Muslims, from the civil and religious community that Cartagena envisioned.
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