Author

Publication

2015 - Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

51,500 words, Guess

Page Count

206 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-109004264108
  • ISBN-109004301607
  • ISBN-139789004264106
  • ISBN-139789004301603
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015027372
and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC869.09/38296
  • LCCPQ9043 .F45 2015

Description

This book scrutinizes literary works based on Judaism, Jews and their descendants, written or printed by the Portuguese between the forced conversion of Jews in 1497 and the ending of the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773. It tries to understand what motivated this vast literary production, its different currents, and how they evolved. Additionally, it studies the image of New Christians and seeks the reasons for the perpetuation of this perception of Jewish descendants in the Early Modern Portuguese world. This book seeks to identify which Jews and which ‘synagogue’ those authors constructed in their texts and their reasons for doing so, and offers conclusions on the self-affirmed Catholic importance of this literary current.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World -- 61
  • Medieval and early modern Iberian world -- v. 61.

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