Early Modern Historians quick Flashcards
Muslim 5th Column
Hess
Lepanto not great turning point. Just border conflict in part of process of defining boundaries between the two civilizations of Islam and Christendom, confirmed in truce of 1580
Hess
In the early decades of evangelization in the Andes, the model of conversion by persuasion was implemented by some missionaries, in particular by the friend and follower of Las Casas, Domingo de Santo Tomás. Subsequently, however, this model was supplanted by an ever-increasing insistence on the authority, not only of Christianity, but of European concepts of culture, to the exclusion of their Andean equivalents
MacCormack
Missionaries in Peru occasionally cited precedents of Visigothic ecclesiastical practice but very rarely referred to peninsular attempts to convert Jews and Muslims as in any sense comparable to their own activities. One reason is that Indians were gentiles, which meant that, in the eyes of a Spanish observer of the sixteenth or seventeenth century, different legal rules and procedures applied to them
MacCormack
Light persuasion to Extirpation of Indian religion in Peru
Mills
Morisco women resisting inquisition. Trying to preserve Morisco culture e.g. by hiding Korans and talismans under their clothing
Surtz
Türkenbüchlein
Bohnstedt
Tussle over translation of Koran. Luther’s decisive intervention
Clark
Comparison of Spanish treatment of Moors with English treatment of the Irish
Fuchs
in Spain: the rejection of deviance occurred first at the religious level, later at the religious and cultural levels, and finally at the level of blood and of physical bodies.
Root
Jeronima la Franca and her relatives with other Moriscos placed themselves squatting, and put couscous in a large vessel, and with everyone surrounding this they ate of the couscous with the hands, making handfuls like the Moors used to do by tradition and ceremony of the sect of Mahomat
Trial evidence, Inquisition 1500
Elizabethan views of Islam
Islam was refuted by most Christian writers of the time, for that was a scholarly obligation.
Salem
Spiritual and temporal power viewed as two necessary props, two departments, of a single and universal society composed of the same members united by the same faith
Those who do not share the common faith are automatically excluded
Jews may be tolerated, but as a foreign body. Religious orthodoxy is the condition of political allegiance
d’Entreves
Term Jew became a category of thought, way of thinking about the other - anything threatening immediately classed as Judaism
Not racial problem, scapegoating of minority group
Nirenberg
Violence and aggression = forms of association, which help to reify cultural and religious boundaries and facilitate coexistence
Questions applicability of tolerance/ intolerance
Highlights limits of analyses looking for origins of modern European violence in medieval past
Ideas about how minorities function contingent on host of other structures and ideas, many of which quite local meaning
Nirenberg
