Language:
French
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Annales - Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations
Angaben zur Quelle:
45,4 (1990) 819-838
Keywords:
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Inquisition
;
Jewish messianic movements
Abstract:
Describes the impact of the myth of the Turkish Orient on the Spanish Conversos of Andalusia and Castile in the second part of the 15th century. Some of the Conversos escaped from Spain to Turkey due to the messianic and eschatological movement widespread among them. According to information about this movement from the writings of Alfonso de Espina, a Franciscan priest (himself a Converso), the Jews were waiting for the Antichrist (the Turk) who would destroy their common enemy and restore Israel's grandeur. Espina's work "Fortalitium fidei contra Iudeos, Saracenos et alios Christianae fidei inimicos" (1459) presents a plan for a radical anti-Converso and anti-Jewish policy. Presents, as well, how the dichotomy between the West and the Turkish Orient appears in the writings of Isaac Abravanel.
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