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I After Conversion i After Conversion © García-Arenal, 2016 | doi 10.1163/9789004324329_001 This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND License. Mercedes García-Arenal - 978-90-04-32432-9 Downloaded from Brill.com06/07/2019 07:07:11PM via Library of Congress ii Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700 Series Editors Giorgio Caravale, Roma Tre University Ralph Keen, University of Illinois at Chicago J. Christopher Warner, Le Moyne College, Syracuse The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/cac Mercedes García-Arenal - 978-90-04-32432-9 Downloaded from Brill.com06/07/2019 07:07:11PM via Library of Congress iii After Conversion Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal LEIDEN | BOSTON Mercedes García-Arenal - 978-90-04-32432-9 Downloaded from Brill.com06/07/2019 07:07:11PM via Library of Congress iv This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/ Want or need Open Access? Brill Open offers you the choice to make your research freely accessible online in exchange for a publication charge. Review your various options on brill.com/brill-open. Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 2468-4279 isbn 978-90-04-32431-2 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-32432-9 (e-book) Copyright 2016 by the Editor and the Authors. This work is published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect the publication against unauthorized use and to authorize dissemination by means of offprints, legitimate photocopies, microform editions, reprints, translations, and secondary information sources, such as abstracting and indexing services including databases. Requests for commercial re-use, use of parts of the publication, and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill NV. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Mercedes García-Arenal - 978-90-04-32432-9 Downloaded from Brill.com06/07/2019 07:07:11PM via Library of Congress ContentsContents v Contents Acknowledgements vii List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Mercedes García-Arenal Part 1 Biblical Culture, Jewish Antiquities and New Forms of Sacred History 1 Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist History 21 Adam G. Beaver 2 Biblical Translations and Literalness in Early Modern Spain 66 Fernando Rodríguez Mediano 3 Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of Spain 95 Valeria López Fadul 4 The Search for Evidence: The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of Trent 126 Cécile Vincent-Cassy Part 2 Iberian Polemics, Readings of the Qurʾān and the Rise of European Orientalism 5 Textual Agnogenesis and the Polysemy of the Reader: Early Modern European Readings of Qurʾānic Embryology 155 Pier Mattia Tommasino Mercedes García-Arenal - 978-90-04-32432-9 Downloaded from Brill.com06/07/2019 07:07:11PM via Library of Congress vi Contents 6 A Witness of Their Own Nation: On the Influence of Juan Andrés 174 Ryan Szpiech Contents Contents v Acknowledgements vii List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Mercedes García-Arenal Part 1 Biblical Culture, Jewish Antiquities and New Forms of Sacred History Chapter 1 Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist History 21 Adam G. Beaver Chapter 2 7 Authority, Philology and Conversion under the Aegis of Martín Biblical Translations and Literalness in Early Modern Spain 66 Fernando Rodríguez Mediano Chapter 3 Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of Spain 95 Valeria López Fadul Chapter 4 The Search for Evidence: The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of Trent 126 Cécile Vincent-Cassy Part 2 Iberian Polemics, Readings of the Qurʾān and the Rise of European Orientalism Chapter 5 Textual Agnogenesis and the Polysemy of the Reader: Early Modern European Readings of Qurʾānic Embryology 155 Pier Mattia Tommasino Chapter 6 García 199 A Witness of Their Own Nation: On the Influence of Juan Andrés 174 Ryan Szpiech Chapter 7 Authority, Philology and Conversion under the Aegis of Martín García 199 Teresa Soto and Katarzyna K. Starczewska Chapter 8 Polemical Transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and Their Impact in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century 229 Gerard A. Wiegers Part 3 Conversion and Perplexity Chapter 9 Assembling Alumbradismo: The Evolution of a Heretical Construct 251 Jessica J. Fowler Teresa Soto and Katarzyna K. Starczewska Chapter 10 Doubt in Fifteenth-Century Iberia 283 Stefania Pastore Chapter 11 Mi padre moro, yo moro: The Inheritance of Belief in Early Modern Iberia 304 Mercedes García-Arenal Chapter 12 Tropes of Expertise and Converso Unbelief: Huarte de San Juan’s History of Medicine 336 Seth Kimmel Chapter 13 True Painting and the Challenge of Hypocrisy 358 Felipe Pereda Printed Sources and Bibliography 395 Index 451 Backlist 462 8 Polemical Transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and Their Impact in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century 229 Gerard A. Wiegers Part 3 Conversion and Perplexity 9 Assembling Alumbradismo: The Evolution of a Heretical Construct 251 Jessica J. Fowler 10 Doubt in Fifteenth-Century Iberia 283 Stefania Pastore 11 Mi padre moro, yo moro: The Inheritance of Belief in Early Modern Iberia 304 Mercedes García-Arenal 12 Tropes of Expertise and Converso Unbelief: Huarte de San Juan’s History of Medicine 336 Seth Kimmel 13 True Painting and the Challenge of Hypocrisy 358 Felipe Pereda Printed Sources and Bibliography 395 Index 451 Backlist 462 Mercedes García-Arenal - 978-90-04-32432-9 Downloaded from Brill.com06/07/2019 07:07:11PM via Library of Congress AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements vii Acknowledgements This book is based on papers delivered on three panels, with the general title of Conversion and its Intellectual Consequences in Early Modern Iberia, at the meeting of the Renaissance Society of America held in New York in March 2014. Four scholars, including a discussant, took part in each of the three panels. The aim of these panels was to give members of the CORPI project (‘Con version, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics and Interaction: Early Modern Iberia and Beyond’, ERC Grant Agreement number 323316), whose PI is Mercedes García- Arenal, the opportunity to present their work and discuss it with American colleagues before an international audience. It was also an opportunity for senior scholars to engage in dialogue with early stage researchers. In addi- tion to the papers given on these panels (Kimmel, Rodríguez Mediano, Beaver, Tommasino, Wiegers, Szpiech, Pastore, García-Arenal, Pereda), this volume contains a further two papers (Vincent-Cassy and López Fadul) presented on other panels at the same meeting of the RSA that have clear affinities with our own work. Finally, two more contributions by CORPI members (Soto and Starczewska, Fowler) were added to round out the thematic issues presented and discussed at the RSA. We would therefore like to express our deepest gratitude on the one hand to the Renaissance Society of America for providing such an extraordinary forum to present this ongoing work and for being so receptive to new topics and issues, and, on the other, to the European Research Council, which funds our research so generously. Our thanks also go to Teresa Madrid Álvarez-Piñer for her job editing this volume, a task which involved checking references and compiling the bibliography and index. Additionally, Martin Beagles and Nicholas Callaway translated the papers originally written in Spanish and Italian into English. Special thanks are also due to the two anonymous readers who made comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this book. Mercedes García-Arenal - 978-90-04-32432-9 Downloaded from Brill.com06/07/2019 07:07:11PM via Library of Congress viii List of Figures and Tables List Of Figures And Tables List of Figures 4.1 Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, St Raphael (1652), oil on canvas, 260 × 200 cm. Cordoba, Town Council 149 7.1 Ms. Gayangos 1922/36, Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia: Joan Martín de Figuerola, Lumbre de fe contra la secta mahometana y el alcorán (1521); fol. 12v. © Reproducción, Real Academia de la Historia 212–13 13.1 Martín Gómez el Viejo and Esteban Jamete, Altarpiece (1551–52). Cathedral of Cuenca (Archivo Catedralicio, Cuenca) 364 13.2 Esteban Jamete, Sacra capilla de El Salvador (Úbeda, Jaén), entry arch, interior. Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli 366 13.3 Sebastiano del Piombo, Cobos Pietà, 111 × 124 cm (ca. 1540). Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli 368 13.4 Sebastiano del Piombo, Christ carrying the Cross, 43 × 32 cm, oil on slate, (1532– 35). © Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado 370 13.5 Sebastiano del Piombo, Christ carrying the Cross, 104.5 × 74.5 cm, oil on slate, (1537). Photograph ©The State Hermitage Museum. Photo by Vladimir Terebenin 371 13.6 ‘Maries at the Sepulchre’, Sacramentarium Sancti Gereonis Coloniensis, Lat. 817, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Île-de-France 379 13.7 Sebastiano del Piombo, (copy of) Christ carrying the Cross, Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales. Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid 383 13.8 Juan de Juanes (d. 1579), Christ with Angels, 153.67 × 102.87 cm, oil on panel. Dallas Museum of Art (gift of Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows) 385 13.9 Martín Gómez el Viejo (d.
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