The Converso Condition: New Approaches to an Old Question

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part 1: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL MINORITIES IN CHANGING SOCIETIES
6. The Converso Condition: New Approaches to an Old Question 1
7. Speaking through Many Voices: Polyphony in the Writings of Teresa de Cartagena 16
8. Chains of Iron, Gold and Devotion: Images of Earthly and Divine Justice in the Memorias of Doña Leonor López de Córdoba 30
9. Part 2: CONTACT AND CONFLICT: PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORY AND CULTURE
10. Visigoths and Asturians Reinterpreted: The Spanish Grand Narrative Restored? 47
11. Against the Arabs: Propaganda and Paradox in Medieval Castile 57
12. Conquest and Conversion in the Hispanic Chivalric Romance: The Case of Reinaldos de Montalván 70
13. Part 3: TRANSMISSION OF LEARNING AND TEXTS IN CHANGING CULTURES
14. Hermes Trismegistus in General Estoria II 87
15. Pharmaceutical Fictions: Celestina’s Laboratory and the Sixteenth-Century Medical Imaginary 99
16. Spanish and Portuguese Scholars at the University of Paris in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: The Exchange of Ideas and Texts 110
17. The Primary Audience and Contexts of Reception of Thirteenth-Century Castilian cuaderna vía Poetry 120
18. Editorial Interference in Amadís de Gaula and Sergas de Esplandián 136
19. Part 4: LINGUISTIC CONTACT AND CHANGE
20. Perils of Speaking of Orígenes de la lengua 153
21. Aspects of Official Language Usage in Castile and León: Latin and the Vernacular in the Early Thirteenth Century 165
22. Considering Paradigmatic Factors in the Reduction of Old Spanish sodes > sois 175
23. Index 185