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History 88-5 Spring 2007

Heresy and the “Other” in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Thursday, 2:00-4:50, Math and Sciences Building 3915D

TA: Aaron Moreno

Office Hours: 2155 Bunche Hall, Tuesdays 2-4 and by appointment

Mailbox: 6th Floor Bunche Hall, Room 6275

Email: aamoreno@ucla.edu

This seminar will focus on the issues that arose from Spain‘s unique history of heresy and

conversion. As will quickly become obvious, much of our attention will necessarily be devoted

to the interactions of Christians, Jews and Muslims in Spain, as well. In a seminar that covers

heresy, conversion and ethno-religious interaction, there should be something for everyone.

For each seminar meeting, you will come prepared to discuss the articles and texts from the

―Required Reading.‖ I require that you bring to the seminar at least five discussion questions or

issues related to the texts. We will be looking mostly at primary sources, which are on the whole

really fun. There will also be secondary readings to give us some more context.

Each week there will also be two or three five-to-ten-minute student presentations on articles or

books selected from the ―Potential Readings for Presentations.‖ This will allow the presenters to

hone their oral skills and will save you from having an impossibly long required reading list.

You only have to present one presentation during the quarter, and you can pick whichever text or

article you wish to present during whichever week looks the most interesting to you. There will

be a Q and A session.

We also will have a few short writing exercises to prepare you for your twelve-to-fifteen page

term paper. Some of these exercises will involve-to-peer critiques of portions of your term paper

drafts. On our final meeting (June 8), you will present the main ideas and arguments of your term

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paper to the seminar. There will be a Q and A session and a voluntary potluck (it‘s much more

fun to listen to presentations while eating cookies). Your completed term paper is due June 13.

As for the specific requirements of the class:

Participation (35%): So, so very important. This includes coming to class on time. You will

have a five-minute grace period, after which time you will be considered late. Good

participation will get you an ―A,‖ sub-par participation (i.e. contributing significantly less than

most of the class) will get you a ―B-.‖ Not talking at all will get you a ―D-―. Unexcused

absences will kill your grade since we only meet ten times. Excused absences are for extreme

cases only and usually require a doctor‘s note.

Weekly Written Submissions (10%): Each week, you must submit at least five (typed)

insightful observations or questions that further discussion. That way, you will always have

insightful things to say.

For Week III, you will also write a one- to two-page essay about any topic related to the week‘s

readings, and bring it to class for peer-to-peer critique sessions.

For Week IV, you will also submit to me a revised version of the same one- two-page essay,

along with peer critique comments on the first draft.

Presentations (10%): Your presentation on a work selected from ―Potential Readings for

Presentations‖ will count for 10% of your grade. You will be graded on how well you convey

the main ideas and issues, and the ability to answer any questions will be important, too.

Term Paper Preparation (15%): You will be graded on your ability to meet the following

benchmarks in term paper preparation:

Week IV: Submission and discussion of your term paper topic (1%) and proposed

bibliography (1%) with me during my office hours. (2%)

Week VI: Submission and discussion of your term paper‘s outline with me during

my office hours. (1%)

Week VII: Bring the first draft of any two-three pages of your term paper to the

seminar meeting for peer-to-peer critique sessions. Email me your

updated bibliography. (1%)

Week VIII: Submit the second draft of the same two-three pages of your term paper,

along with the first draft and its peer critique comments. (2%)

Week IX: Bring your introduction paragraph(s)—with thesis statement!—to the

seminar meeting for peer-to-peer critique sessions.

Week X: Five-minute oral presentation of the main ideas and arguments of your

term paper, with two minutes reserved for a Q & A session (7%). Submit

the second draft of your introduction paragraph(s), along with the first

draft and its peer critique comments (2%). (9%)

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Term Paper (30%): Your term paper will be an original 12-15 pages of scholarship concerning

any pre-approved topic related to the course. You will be required to consult primary and

secondary sources, cite with footnotes or endnotes, and include a ―works cited‖ page. You must

use twelve-point, Times New Roman font, and your paper should be double-spaced with one-

inch margins. Content is paramount, but form is important, too. Your term paper must be in my

TA mailbox or in my email inbox before 12:00 on June 13.

Required Readings available at the UCLA Bookstore and on Reserve: 1. Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources

DP97.4 .M43 1997

2. The Spanish Inquisition : a historical revision BX1735 .K312 1997

3. Spain : a history / edited by Raymond Carr. DP66 .S63 2000

4. Course Reader. The material will also be posted online.

General Readings Concerning Medieval Spain (On Reserve) + Early medieval Spain : unity in diversity, 400-1000. DP94 .C64 1995

+ Spain in the Middle Ages : from frontier to empire, 1000-1500 DP99 .M192s

+ Dictionary of the Middle Ages D114 .D5 1982

+ Medieval Iberia : an encyclopedia DP99 .M33 2003

Useful Websites + Worldcat http://ucla.worldcat.org/

An excellent resource to search for bibliographical information regarding books,

journals, and some articles.

+ International Medieval Bibliography – Online. http://www.brepolis.net/

Bibliographical information for numerous articles concerning the Middle Ages.

+ International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages. http://www.brepolis.net/

+ Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com

This resource limits your google searches to scholarly articles, books, etc.

+ JSTOR http://www.jstor.org

A database of many, many articles that are at least 5 years old.

+ Medieval Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html

A very useful collection of medieval primary sources

+ VPN Client. http://www.bol.ucla.edu/services/vpn/

Download this program to access JSTOR, IMB, etc. when off-campus.

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Week I - “Introduction” Topics:

What is heresy?

What did the early Church have to say about dealing with heretics and

conversion?

An introduction to the medieval and early modern history of Spain.

Workshops:

Using library databases and resources

To Do:

Students will select one of the “potential readings for presentations” from any

week to provide a basis for a five- to ten-minute oral presentation.

Required Reading: (41+ pages) 1. ―Introduction,‖ in Heresy and authority in medieval Europe : documents in

translation / edited, with an introd., by Edward Peters, pp 13-26 (COURSE

READER) BT1319 .P47

2. ―Nicaea I‖ in Decrees of the ecumenical councils / edited by Norman P.

Tanner 1-5 (COURSE READER) BX825 .A1990

3. ―Arianism‖ http://bartleby.com/65/ar/Arianism.html

4. ―Augustine and Donatism,‖ in Creeds, councils and controversies : documents

illustrating the history of the Church AD337-461 / edited by J. Stevenson, pp 209-

213. (COURSE READER) BR160.A2 S84c 1989

5. The letters of Gregory the Great / translated, with introduction and notes, by

John R.C. Martyn. Vol. 1 pg 171, Vol. 2 pp 519-21, 662-663. (COURSE

READER) BR65.G53 R4313 2004

6. ―Introduction,‖ in Spain : a history / edited by Raymond Carr, pp 1-10.

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Week II - “Spain and Late Antiquity” Topics:

A Spanish heresy in the Roman Empire: the Priscillianists.

Christian unity in Visigoth Spain: Arianism and “Orthodoxy”:

Workshop:

Class critique of a sample student history essay. Common writing mistakes.

Required Reading: (106 pages) 1. ―Prehistoric and Roman Spain,‖ AND ―Visigothic Spain,‖ both found in Spain

: a history, pp 11-62

2. Stephen McKenna. Paganism and pagan survivals in Spain up to the fall of the

Visigothic kingdom, pp 50-74. (COURSE READER) D111 .C28 ser.2 v.1

3. ―Asceticism in the West: Martin of Tours and Priscillian,‖ in Creeds, councils

and controversies, pp 151-164. (COURSE READER)

4. Pablo C. D az. ―Monasticism and liturgy in Visigothic Spain,‖ in The

Visigoths: Studies in Culture and Society. Ed. (1999), 169,191-199. (COURSE

READER) DP96 .V58 1999

5. Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources

a. ―Catholic Bishop and an Arian King,‖ pp 5-11

b. ―The Visigothic Conversion to Catholicism: The 3rd

Council of

Toledo,‖ pp 12-20

6. Rosamond McKitterick, The Frankish Church and the Carolingian Reforms,

789-895, London: Royal Historical Society, 1977. BR255 .M199f 1977

Potential Readings for Presentations +MOORHEAD, John. ―Clovis' motives for becoming a Catholic Christian. Journal of

Religious History 13:4, (1985), 329-339.

+ F.X. Murphy, ―Julian of Toledo and the condemnation of Monothelitism in Spain,‖

Mélanges Joseph de Ghellinck, Vol. I, 361-73. BR50.G34 M4 (SRLF)

+ The making of a heretic : gender, authority, and the Priscillianist controversy / Virginia

Burrus. BT1465 .B87 1995 and online

+ Priscillian of Avila : the occult and the charismatic in the early church / Henry

Chadwick. BT1465 .C44

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Week III - “Christian Spain, Muslim Spain, and in-between” Topics:

Christians, Muslims and Jews living together: “Convivencia”

What is Tolerance? Who was tolerant? How tolerant were they?

Muslims fighting against and for Christians, and vice versa: The Spanish frontier

Workshop:

Write a 1-2 page essay about any topic related to this week’s readings, and bring

it to class for peer-to-peer critique sessions.

Required Reading: (130 pages) 1. ―Early Middle Ages,‖ in Spain: A History, pp 63-89

2. ―Introduction,‖ in The Spanish Inquisition : a historical revision / Henry

Kamen, pp 1-7. BX1735 .K312 1997

3. Alex Novikoff. ―Between tolerance and intolerance in medieval Spain: An

historiographic enigma,‖ in Medieval Encounters, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2005, 7-36.

FIND ONLINE

4. Christians and Moors in Spain (COURSE READER) BP172 .S62 1988

a. ―Account of John of Gorze,‖ in Vol. 1, pp 62-75

c. ―Mosque of Toledo,‖ in Vol. 1, pp 88-91

e. ―Franciscans Try to Preach in Seville,‖ in Vol. 2, pp 26-31

4. Medieval Iberia: Readings

a. ―Two Accounts of the Muslim Conquest,‖ pp 29-36

b. ―A Muslim-Christian Treaty,‖ pp 37-38

c. ―Three Visions of Samuel and Joseph ibn Naghrela, pp 91-102

d. ―Market Regulations in Muslim Seville,‖ 175-189

e. ―Pageants and Festivities in Castile: Preparations for a Royal

Wedding,‖ pp 317-319

5. Excerpt from Poem of the Cid. A modern translation, with notes, by Paul

Blackburn. Introd. by Glen Willbern, verses 1-90, pp 58-79. (COURSE

READER) PQ6366.E3 B6 1966

Potential Readings for Presentations + David Nirenberg, Communities of violence : persecution of minorities in the Middle

Ages D164 .N57 1998

+ The Song of Roland / translated, with an introduction by Patricia Terry.

PQ1521.E5 T27 1992

+ Mar a Rosa Menocal, The ornament of the world : how Muslims, Jews, and Christians

created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain DP102 .M46 2002

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+ Conflict and coexistence : Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews in medieval

Spain / Luck K. Pick. BX4705.X5 P53 2004

Week IV - “Reconquest and Crusade” Topics:

How did relations between Christians and Muslims change over time?

Was the Spanish “Reconquista” a crusade?

What does “crusade” mean?

To Do:

Submit a revised version of the previous week’s 1-2 page essay, along with peer

critique comments on the first draft.

TERM PAPER PREPARATION:

Submission and discussion of term paper topic and proposed bibliography with

me during my office hours this week.

Required Reading: (135 pages) 1. ―The Late Middle Ages,‖ in Spain: A History, pp 90-115

2. FLORI, Jean, ―Ideology and motivations in the First Crusade,‖ in Palgrave

Advances in the Crusades. Ed. Helen J. NICHOLSON. Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan. (2005), 15-36. D156.58 .P35 2005

3. Christians and Moors in Spain (COURSE READER) BP172 .S62 1988

a. ―Barbastro‖ in Vol. 3, pp 70-1

b. ―Las Navas de Tolosa,‖ in Vol. 2, pp 14-25

4. Medieval Iberia

a. ―The Political Dilemma of a Granadan Ruler,‖ pp 103-108

b. ―Concerning King Sancho I and His Deeds,‖ pp 118-122

c. ―Grants to Christian Military Orders,‖ pp 156-161

d. ―Christian Conquest of Valencia,‖ pp 207-216

e. ―Christian Alliance against Granada,‖ pp 232-236

f. ―Christian Conquest of Granada,‖ pp 343-351

5. FLETCHER, R.A. ―Reconquest and crusade in Spain, c.1050-1150, in

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society ser.5:37(1987):31-47

DA20 .R81t

6. Conflict and coexistence : Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews in

medieval Spain / Luck K. Pick, pp 34-41, 43-49, 52, 56-58

BX4705.X5 P53 2004

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Potential Readings for Presentations + HOUSLEY, Norman, ―Crusades against Christians: their origins and early

development, c.1000-1216,‖ in The Crusades: The Essential Readings. Ed.

Thomas F. MADDEN (2002), 69-97.

+ P. Partner, ―Holy War, Crusade and Jihād: An attempt to define some

problems,‖ in Autour de la Première Croisade: Actes du Colloque de la Society

for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, pp 333-343

+ RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA, José Manuel, ―Idea and reality of crusade in Alfonso

X's reign: Castile and Leon, 1252-1284,‖ in Autour de la Première Croisade:

Actes du Colloque de la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East

(Clermont-Ferrand, 22-25 juin 1995). Ed. Michel BALARD (Byzantina

Sorbonensia, 14). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonnne. (1996), 379-390

D161.2 .S635 1996 + Monastic reform, Catharism, and the Crusades, (900-1300) / Bernard Hamilton.

X2590 .H35

+ WAKEFIELD, Walter L. ‖ Some unorthodox popular ideas of the thirteenth

century,‖ in Medievalia et humanistica n.s.4, (1973), 25-35

+ Michael Gervers and James Powell, eds., Tolerance and Intolerance: Social

Conflict in the Age of the Crusades (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,

2001). (Chapter 4 covers Medieval Iberia)

+ R. I. Moore: The Origins of European Dissent (New York: St.Martin‘s Press,

1977);

+ R. I. Moore: The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in

Western Europe, 950-1250 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987).

Week V - “Christians from Muslim Spain: the Mozarabs” Topics:

The status of Mozarabs in Muslim Spain

Toledo versus Charlemagne and the pope: The Adoptionist Controversy

Did convivencia lead to heresy?

A heretical liturgy? The Mozarab rite controversy.

New Partners: Spain and the Papacy

Required Reading: (94 pages) 1. Epalza, Mikel de. ―Mozarabs: An Emblematic Christian Minority in Islamic

al-Andalus,‖ in The Legacy of Muslim Spain. Jayyusi, Salma Khadra (ed) Brill,

New York 1992 149-163 DP103 .L38 1994c

3. J. McWilliam, ―The Context of Spanish Adoptionism: A Review,‖ in

Conversion and Continuity: indigenous Christian Communities in Islamic lands

Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries, (COURSE READER) pp 75-88

BR1070 .C66 1990

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3. The martyrs of C rdoba (850-859) : a study of the sources / by Edward P.

Colbert, pp 51-85 (COURSE READER) D111 .C28 ser.2 v.17

4. Medieval Iberia

a. ―Eulogius and the Martyrs of C rdoba,‖ pp 51-55

4. Joseph O‘Callaghan, ―The Integration of Christian Spain into Europe: The Role

of Alfonso VI of León-Castile,‖ in Santiago, Saint-Denis, and Saint Peter : the

reception of the Roman liturgy in Le n-Castile in 1080 / edited by Bernard F.

Reilly, pp 101-120. (COURSE READER) BX1977.S7 S26 1985

Potential Readings for Presentations + ―Mozarab Rite,‖ ―Celtic Rite,‖ and ―Milanese Rite,‖ in the Dictionary of the Middle

Ages

+ The martyrs of C rdoba : community and family conflict in an age of mass conversion

/ Jessica A. Coope. BX4659.S8 C66 1995

+ ―A Mozarab Universal History,‖ translated by Aaron Moreno.

+ The last christology of the West : adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785-820 / John C.

Cavadini. BT1320 .C38 1993

+ Luitpold Wallach. Alcuin and Charlemagne: studies in Carolingian history and

literature. PA25 .C81 no.32

Week VI - “Christianity and Islam; Heresy in Islam”

Topics:

Christian heretics? Shifting Spanish views of Islam.

A useful comparison? Orthodoxy and heresy in Islam.

TERM PAPER PREPARATION:

Submission and discussion of your term paper’s outline with me during my office

hours.

Required Reading: (87 pages) 1. HUGH GODDARD, ―Christian-Muslim Relations: a look backwards and a

look forwards‖ Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 11, No. 2, July 2000

2. ―Heresy in al-Andalus,‖ in The Legacy of Muslim Spain, pp 895-904.

3. Hanna Kassis, ―Roots of Conflict: Aspects of Christian –Muslim

Confrontation in Eleventh-Century Spain,‖ in Conversion and Continuity:

indigenous Christian Communities in Islamic lands Eighth to Eighteenth

Centuries, 151-159 BR1070 .C66 1990

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4. STERN, Gregg. ―Philosophy in southern France: controversy over philosophic

study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought.‖ The Cambridge

Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy. 281-303.

5. Medieval Iberia: Readings

a. ―A Christian Account of the Life of Muhammad,‖ pp 48-50

b. ―Two Arguments in Support of Christian Faith,‖ pp 143-151

c. ―On Preaching and Conversion,‖ 280-284

6. Christians and Moors in Spain

a. ―Why did God Allow Islam to Emerge?‖ pp 94-95

Potential Readings for Presentations

+ Muhammad Ali, A refutation of declaring a Muslim an unbeliever : English

translation of Radd-i takfi r ahl-i Qiblah, translated and edited by Sh. Muhammad

Tufail. BP195.A5 A6913 1995

+ Menachem Kellner. Must a Jew believe anything?. BM602 .K45 2006

+ Daniel, Norman. "Spanish Christian Sources of Information About Islam

(Ninth-Thirteenth Centuries)." Al-Qantara XV, no. 2 (1994): 365-83

DP102 .Q37

+ Norman Daniel. Islam and the West : the making of an image

BP172 .D3 1993

Week VII - “The Jews of Spain”

Topics:

The Jews of Visigoth Spain

The Jews of medieval Spain

Conversion and the Sword: The Pogroms of 1391 in Christian Spain

1492: Expulsion

TERM PAPER PREPARATION:

Bring the first draft of any two-three pages of your term paper to the seminar meeting for peer-to-peer critique sessions.

Required Reading: (156 + pages) 1. Thomas Madden. ―The Church and the Jews in the Middle Ages,‖ Crisis, 1

January 2003. Online access at

http://www.crisismagazine.com/january2003/feature4.htm

2. ―The Great Dispersion,‖ in The Spanish Inquisition, 9-27.

3. The City of God / by Saint Augustine, XVII.7, XVIII.46, XX.29, pp 157-158,

220-222, 313-314. (COURSE READER) BR65 .A92dE 1947 v2

4. Medieval Iberia: Readings

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a. ―Visigothic Legislation concerning the Jews,‖ pp 21-23

c. ―Expulsion of the Jews,‖ pp 352-363

5 The Visigothic code (Forum judicum) tr. from the original Latin and ed. by S.

P. Scott. ―Book XII,‖ in Visigothic Code (Forum Iudicum)., pp 362-367, 374-384,

403-409 (COURSE READER) K25 .V82c 1910

6. GONZÁLEZ-SALINERO, Raúl. ―Catholic anti-Judaism in Visigothic Spain,‖

in The Visigoths: Studies in Culture and Society. Ed. (1999), 123-150.

DP96 .V58 1999

7. ―Canon 68 of The Fourth Lateran Council, 1215,‖ in Decrees of the

ecumenical councils / edited by Norman P. Tanner, 262-263 (COURSE

READER)

8. Las siete partidas, translation and notes by Samuel Parsons Scott ...

introduction, table of contents and index by Charles Sumner Lobringier ...

bibliography by John Vance, pp 1433-1445 (COURSE READER)

K25 .S73sE

9. Lucy Pick, Conflict and Coexistence, pp171-181

10. ―Letter of Cresca,‖ in A treasury of Jewish letters : letters from the famous

and the humble / edited by Franz Kobler, 272-275. (COURSE READER)

DS119 .K58 1952

11. ―Account of Solomon Bar Simson‖ in The Jews and the Crusaders : the

Hebrew chronicles of the first and second Crusades / translated and edited by

Shlomo Eidelberg,‖ 21-35 (COURSE READER) DS135.G31 J48 1996

12. Philippe Wolff ―The 1391 Pogrom in Spain. Social Crisis or Not?‖ Past and

Present, No. 50. (Feb., 1971), pp. 4-18.

Potential Readings for Presentations + GAMPEL, Benjamin Raphael. ―A letter to a wayward teacher: transformations of

Sephardic culture in Christian Iberia,‖ in Cultures of the Jews: A New History. Ed. David

(2002), 388-447.

+ Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. ―Exile and expulsion in Jewish history,‖ in Crisis and

creativity in the Sephardic world, 1391-1648 / edited by Benjamin R. Gampel.

DS134 .C75 1997

+ COHEN, Mark R., ―Anti-Jewish violence and the place of the Jews in Christendom

and in Islam: a paradigm,‖ in Religious Violence between Christians and Jews: Medieval

Roots, Modern Perspectives. Ed. Anna Sapir, (2002), 107-137.

+ Henry Kamen, ―The Mediterranean and the Expulsion of Spanish Jews in 1492‖

Past and Present, No. 119. (May, 1988), pp. 30-55. (JSTOR) D1 .P26

+ Simon, L ―Jews, Visigoths and the Muslim Conquest of Spain,‖ UCLA Historical

Journal, 4 (1983) 5-33 D1 .U34

+ BURNS, Robert I., ―Jews and Moors in the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X the Learned: a

background perspective,‖ in Medieval Spain: Culture, Conflict and Coexistence. Studies

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in Honour of Angus MacKay. Ed. Roger COLLINS and Anthony GOODMAN.

(2002), 46-62. DP99 .M34 2002

+ A History of the Jews in Christian Spain / Yitzhak Baer ; translated from the Hebrew

by Louis Schoffman ; with an introduction by Benjamin R. Gampel.

DS135.S7 B14E 1992

+ The Jews of Spain : a history of the Sephardic experience S135.S7 G47 1992

+ Jews and conversos : studies in society and the Inquisition DS135.S7 W67 1981

+ The Sephardic frontier : the reconquista and the Jewish community in medieval Iberia

/ Jonathan Ray. DS135.S7 R38 2006

+ The Expulsion 1492 chronicles : an anthology of medieval chronicles relating to the

expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal / selected and edited by David Raphael.

DS135.S7 E96 1992

+ The Jews in the legal sources of the early Middle Ages / edited with introductions,

translations, and annotations by Amnon Linder. KJC5144.M56 J49 1997

Week VIII - “Converted Jews: The Conversos. The Inquisition” Topics:

Perceptions of Conversos

The Inquisition

TERM PAPER PREPARATION:

Submit to me the second draft of the two-three page excerpt of your term paper, along with the first draft and its peer critique comments. Submit updated bibliography via email.

Required Reading: (162 pages) 1. ―The Coming of the Inquisition,‖ and ―Excluding the Reformation,‖ and ―The

Inquisition and the People,‖ in The Spanish Inquisition, 29-65, 83-102, 255-282.

2. ―The Alboraique,‖ in The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century

Spain, 848-854. (COURSE READER) BX1735 .N48 1995

3. Medieval Iberia

a. ―Heresy and Inquisition,‖ pp 330-337

4. IZBICKI, Thomas M., ―Juan de Torquemada's defense of the conversos,‖ in

Catholic Historical Review 85:2, (1999), 195-207. BX1404 .C28

5. GLICK, Thomas F, ―On converso and marrano ethnicity,‖ in Crisis and

Creativity in the Sephardic World, 1391-1648, (1997), 59-76, 311-313

6. The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain, pp 1041-1047.

7. In the shadow of the Virgin : inquisitors, friars, and conversos in Guadalupe,

Spain / Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau, pp 90-110. DS135.S7 S72 2003

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Potential Readings for Presentations + PEGG, Mark Gregory. The corruption of angels : the great Inquisition of 1245-1246

DC83.3 .P44 2001

+ FOA, Anna. ―Limpieza versus mission: church, religious orders, and conversion in the

sixteenth century,‖ in Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Ed.

Steven J. MICHAEL and Susan E. MYERS (2004), 299-311 DS146.E85 F75 2004

(SRLF)

+ ROSENSTOCK, Bruce Title, ―Alonso de Cartagena: nation, miscegenation, and the

Jew in late-medieval Castile,‖ Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and

Renaissance Studies, 12:1, (2000), 185-204 PN661 .E94.

+ SEIDENSPINNER-NÚÑEZ, ―Conversion and subversion: Converso texts in fifteenth-

century Spain,‖ in Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain.

Interaction and Cultural Change. Ed. Mark D. MEYERSON and Edward D.

9:3, (1999), 241-261. BL980.S7 C48 2000

+ MELAMMED, Renée Levine. ―Crypto-Jewish women facing the Spanish Inquisition:

transmitting religious practices, beliefs, and attitudes,‖ in Christians, Muslims, and Jews

in medieval and early modern Spain : interaction and cultural change / edited by Mark D.

Meyerson and Edward D. English. 197-219 BL980.S7 C48 2000

+ EDWARDS, John, ―The ‗massacre‘ of Jewish Christians in C rdoba, 1473-1474,‖ in

The Massacre in History. Ed. Mark LEVENE and Penny, New York: Berghahn Books.

(1999), 55-68.

+ MACKAY, Angus Title, ―Conversos, urban culture, and religion in fifteenth-century

Castile,‖ in Villes et sociétés urbaines au Moyen Age: Hommage à M. le Professeur

Jacques Heers. Ed. Georges JEHEL et al. Paris: Presses de l'Université de la Sorbonne.

(1994), 281-286 HT115 .V57 1994

+ The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614 : an anthology of sources / edited and translated

by Lu Ann Homza. BX1735 .S63 2006

+ Inquisitorial inquiries : brief lives of secret Jews and other heretics / edited and

translated by Richard L. Kagan and Abigail Dyer. DS135.S8 A155 2004

+ MARTZ, Linda, ―Relations between Conversos and old Christians in early modern

Toledo: some different perspectives,‖ in Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval and

early modern Spain : interaction and cultural change / edited by Mark D. Meyerson and

Edward D. English. 220-240 BL980.S7 C48 2000

+ Jews and conversos : studies in society and the Inquisition DS135.S7 W67 1981

+ The Expulsion of the Jews: 1492 and After. DS135.S7 E97 1994

+ Yirmiyahu Yovel ―The New Otherness: Marrano Dualities in the First Generation‖

http://www.usfca.edu/judaicstudies/yovel.html

+ Mark Meyerson, "Aragonese and Catalan Jewish Converts at the Time of the

Expulsion," Jewish History 1-2 (1992): 131-149

Aaron M. Moreno Heresy and the ―Other‖ Seminar - Syllabus

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Week IX - “Converted Muslims: The Moriscos” Topics:

Perceptions of Moriscos

The issues of cultural assimilation

TERM PAPER PREPARATION:

Bring your introduction paragraph(s)—with thesis statement!—to the seminar meeting for peer-to-peer critique sessions.

Required Reading: (73 pages) 1. ―The End of Morisco Spain,‖ in The Spanish Inquisition, 214-229

2. Medieval Iberia: Readings

a. ―A Mudejar Summary of Islamic Law,‖ pp 327-329

b. ―Muslims and Christians in Valencia: Socializing and Violence on

Corpus Christi Day,‖ 338-339

c. ―Morisco Appeal to the Ottoman Sultan,‖ 364-370

3. The adventures of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated

by J. M. Cohen, Chapter 54 and excerpts from chapters 63-65, pp 816-822, 879-

887, 893-895 (COURSE READER) PQ6329.A25 C6 1952

4. Dayle Seidenspinner-N ez – ―The Moriscos: loyal subjects of his Catholic

majesty Philip III, in Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval and early modern

Spain : interaction and cultural change / edited by Mark D. Meyerson and Edward

D. English, 265-272. (COURSE READER) BL980.S7 C48 2000

5. Stephen Haliczer -- Moriscas and the limits of assimilation / Mary Elizabeth

Perry -- The Moriscos and Christian doctrine,‖ in Christians, Muslims, and Jews

in medieval and early modern Spain : interaction and cultural change / edited by

Mark D. Meyerson and Edward D. English, 274-289. BL980.S7 C48 2000

Potential Readings for Presentations + NIRENBERG, David. ―Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526: varieties of

Mudejar,‖ The Medieval World. Ed. Peter LINEHAN and Janet L. NELSON.

(2001), 60-76. CB351 .M43 2001

+ The handless maiden : Moriscos and the politics of religion in early modern Spain /

Mary Elizabeth Perry. DP104 .P475 2005

+ Islam and the West : the Moriscos, a cultural and social history / Anwar G. Chejne.

DP104 .C45 1983

+ BURNS, Robert I., ―Jews and Moors in the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X the Learned: a

background perspective,‖ in Medieval Spain: Culture, Conflict and Coexistence. Studies

in Honour of Angus MacKay. Ed. Roger COLLINS and Anthony GOODMAN.

(2002), 46-62. DP99 .M34 2002

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+ Hess, AC, ―The Moriscos: Ottoman Fifth Column in 16th

Spain,‖ American Historical

Review, 74 (JSTOR)

Week X - “Summation and Presentations”

Topics:

What conclusions can we draw from more than 1000 years of Spanish heresy,

conversion and ethno-religious interaction?

To Do:

Student Term-Paper Presentations

TERM PAPER PREPARATION:

Submit the second draft of your introduction paragraph(s), along with the first

draft and its peer critique comments.

Term Papers Due June 13 By 12:00 pm at aamoreno@ucla.edu or in My TA Box