Dying in the Law of Moses - Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World

Informationen zum Autor Miriam Bodian is Professor of Jewish History in the Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Touro College. Her book Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (IUP, 1998) received a National Jewish Book Award for History and a Koret Prize for History. Klappentext The complex personalities of the martyrs, acting in response to psychic and situational pressures, emerge vividly from this absorbing book. Zusammenfassung The complex personalities of the martyrs, acting in response to psychic and situational pressures, emerge vividly from this absorbing book. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Maps Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. The Historical Setting 2. The Dogmatista Crypto-Jewish Martyrs 3. A Conquistador's Nephew in New Spain 4. A Monk of Castanheira 5. A Converso Surgeon in the Viceroyalty of Peru 6. A Hebrew Scholar at the University of Salamanca 7. Echoes in the Portuguese-Jewish Diaspora Appendix A: Commemoration of Individual Martyrs in the Literature of the Portuguese-Jewish Diaspora, to 1683 Appendix B: Summary of Luis Carvajal's Nine Reasons for Adhering to the Law of Moses, Audience of February 15, 1595, PLC, 235¿238 Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Miriam Bodian, Bodian Miriam
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2007
• EAN: 9780253348616
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34861-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Modern Jewish Experience; The Modern Jewish Experience; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book