The other within : the Marranos : split identity and emerging modernity /

Abstract

Yirmiyahu Yovel

Sefarad, the Spanish Jerusalem -- Reconquest and revival: the cross is back -- Pogroms and mass conversions -- Conversos: the other within -- The new otherness: duality in many faces -- Marrano mosaic I: places, persons, poems -- The arias d'avilas: hidden Jews or Marrano dualists? -- Enrique the impotent: prosperity, anarchy, and Inquisition on the horizon -- Ferdinand, Isabella, and the "true inquisition" -- The great expulsion -- Trap in Portugal -- Portuguese inquisition, pure blood, and the "nation" -- A Judaizing Marrano religion -- New Christians at the forefront of Spanish culture -- A Christian religion of the interior -- Picaresque antiheroes -- Marranos globalized: the networks, the "nation" -- Marrano mosaic II: wanderers, martyrs, intellectuals, dissenters -- Marranos and western modernity -- Marranos and Jewish modernity.