The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos: Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico
Marie-Theresa Hernández
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Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa Hernández unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence onthe Catholic Churchin the New World.
The terms converso and judaizante are often used for descendants of Spanish Jews (the Sephardi, or Sefarditas as they are sometimes called), who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There are few, if any, archival documents that prove the existence of judaizantes after the Spanish expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and the Portuguese expulsion in 1497, as it ... Read more
Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa Hernández unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence onthe Catholic Churchin the New World.
The terms converso and judaizante are often used for descendants of Spanish Jews (the Sephardi, or Sefarditas as they are sometimes called), who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There are few, if any, archival documents that prove the existence of judaizantes after the Spanish expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and the Portuguese expulsion in 1497, as it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813565699
SKU
V9780813565699
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About Marie-Theresa Hernández
MARIE-THERESA HERNÁNDEZ is a professor of world cultures and literatures in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston, as well as the director of Jewish studies there.
Reviews for The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos: Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico
"Cogent, convincing, and full of interesting stories, this original work by Marie-Theresa Hernández makes us reconsider the old boundaries opposing Christians and Jews in the Hispanic old and new worlds."
Jean-Michel Rabaté
University of Pennsylvania
"Hernández does well to stir the pot and to challenge other scholars to wrestle with existent sources ot make visible the hidden histories ... Read more
Jean-Michel Rabaté
University of Pennsylvania
"Hernández does well to stir the pot and to challenge other scholars to wrestle with existent sources ot make visible the hidden histories ... Read more