Reconciliation and Resistance in Early Modern Spain: Hernando de Baeza and the Catholic Monarchs
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This book offers an original perspective on the emergence of early modern Spain from multi-faith Iberia. It uses the eventful career of Hernando de Baeza – an interpreter, intermediary, and author positioned at the intersection of the so-called 'three cultures' of medieval Iberia (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) – as a thread to connect the conflicts, controversies and preoccupations of an age in which Christianising the whole world seemed an attainable dream.
Teresa Tinsley draws on a wealth of extensive archival evidence, together with Baeza's own memoir on the downfall of Muslim Granada (translated here for the first time), to demonstrate the widespread resistance to the authoritarian and exclusionary Christianity which would come to be associated with Spain, the Inquisition, and the Catholic Monarchs of the period. In the process, Tinsley provides a nuanced alternative account of the tensions, compromises and competing interests which underlay Spain's emergence as a world power.
An exploration of the emergence of Catholic Spain from multi-faith Iberia and the pervasive resistance to its authoritarian Christianity.
Novel examination of the widespread resistance to the Catholic unification of early modern Spain
Detailed analysis of a critical place and time for religious history in Europe
Brings a key memoir into the English language for the first time, providing an original, extended source for the subject matter
1. Introduction: An Alternative Eye on the Reign of the Catholic Monarchs
2. Cordoba, the Frontier, and the Inquisition, 1450-1487
3. Granada, 1488-1492
4. Learning and Culture among the Andalusian Élite - 1492-1510
5. The Spanish in Italy
6. Reconciliation and Resistance: A Society in Transition
7. A Dissident Representation of the Conquest of Granada
Conclusion
Appendix: Hernando de Baeza's Memoir
Bibliography
Index
This volume is a sensitive and well-researched study of a foundational period in the history of early modern Spain. Through an analysis of the career and writings of Hernando de Baeza, it offers a fresh and nuanced perspective that brings to the fore questions of religious difference, inter-cultural contact, and good government.
A sensitive and revealing portrait of a deliberately elusive figure, who delicately negotiated a path through the thicket of religious antagonism and intolerance that marked the reigns of the Catholic Monarchs. Tinsley uncovers a cultured, well-connected, and cross-cultural character with converso origins who, while trusted by 'both sides'--Christian and Muslim--and personally known to Ferdinand and Isabella, subtly rejected ethnic binaries and the forced erasure of cultural identities, thus de-Othering both Muslims and Jews.
- Title: Reconciliation and Resistance in Early Modern Spain: Hernando de Baeza and the Catholic Monarchs
- Author: Teresa Tinsley
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350232808, 9781350232761, 1350232769, 1350232807
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350232808
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-09T06:42:18Z
Teresa Tinsley is a linguist and researcher who obtained her PhD in History from the University of Exeter, UK in 2019. She is the author of numerous articles exploring 15th and 16th century Spanish history published in both English and Spanish.