An Invisible Thread

Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559)
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70755-9
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 85, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

Reihe: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pastore, Stefania

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Prologue

Introduction

1 The Weight of the Old Law: the Converso Tradition and Hernando de Talavera (1487)

1 Toledo, 1449

2 Alonso de Cartagena

3 Scripture and Perfection: Alonso de Oropesa and the Hieronymite Tradition

4 Christian-Judaic Syncretism and Heterodoxy

5 Hernando de Talavera and his Católica impugnación

2 The New Inquisition on Trial: the “Errors” of Juan de Lucena, Apostolic Protonotary (1493)

1 De Vita Beata

2 The Two Juan de Lucenas

3 A Treatise against the Inquisition

4 The Inquisition Trials

3 Profetism and Criticism of the Inquisition: the Visions of Pero López de Soria (1519)

1 Castilian Cities against the Inquisition

2 The Prophecy of the Bat: Fray Melchor and Francisco de Cisneros

3 Pero López de Soria (1519)

4 The Talavera Legend

4 “True Peace” and Universal Salvation: the Revelation of Juan del Castillo and Juan López de Celaín (1526)

1 “Calling a Black Man John White”: Alumbrados, Inquisitors, Interpreters

2 Alumbrados and converses

3 “The Trumpet and Fife of True Reformation”: Juan López de Celaín

4 “Such an Easy Yoke”: Juan del Castillo

5 Juan López de Celaín in Granada

6 The Inquisition’s Repression, and Escapes

5 In Talavera’s Shadow: Juan de Valdés’s Diálogo de Doctrina Christiana (1529)

1 Cuenca (1491-1512): Conversos and Inquisitors

2 Alcalá

3 Valdés’ Diálogo de doctrina Cristiana

4 “Think, Sir, that you Hear Him and not Me”: Juan de Valdés’s Granada

6 “Such a Gentle Religion”: A Sevillan Perspective

1 The Crest of the Valdés Wave

2 Spiritualism and Impeccability: Juan Gil, “el doctor Egidio”

3 Seville and Valdesianism: Constantino Ponce de la Fuente

4 The Sevillian Heresy: a Rereading

5 Lutheran Certainties, Converso Consolations: Juan de Ávila

6 A Spanish Heresy?

7 Conversos, Alumbrados, and Diasporas in the Twentieth Century: Talking about Spanish Identity

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).