An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449–1559): 85 (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 85) - Hardcover

Pastore, Stefania

 
9789004707559: An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449–1559): 85 (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 85)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004707557 ISBN 13: 9789004707559
Publisher: Brill, 2024

Synopsis

In Toledo in 1529, a converso named Pedro de Cazalla declared that the connection between man and God was but a thread and that it should not be mediated by the Church. Hardly an isolated phenomenon, Cazalla’s inner spirituality was a widespread response to the increasing repression of religious dissent enacted by the Inquisition.
Forced baptisms of Jews and Muslims had profound effects across Spanish society, leading famous intellectuals as well as ordinary men and women to rethink their sense of belonging to the Christian community and their forms of religiosity. Thus, in this book, early modern Iberia emerges as a laboratory of European-wide transformations.

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About the Author

Stefania Pastore is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy). She has published widely on the history of religious minorities and dissent in Iberia and Italy, and most recently Doubt to Unbelief: Forms of Skepticism in the Iberian World, co-edited with Mercedes García-Arenal (2019).

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Publisher
Brill
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004707557
ISBN 13 
9789004707559
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
348