Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire: Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contra Judios (1674)

Title
Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire: Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contra Judios (1674)
Publication Date
2014-03-06
Author(s)
Soyer, Francois
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1890-3043
Email: fsoyer@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:fsoyer
Type of document
Book
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden, Netherlands
Edition
1
Series
The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
DOI
10.1163/9789004268876
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/26908
Abstract
This book charts the history and influence of the most vitriolic and successful anti-Semitic polemic ever to have been printed in the early modern Hispanic world and offers the first critical edition and translation of the text into English. First printed in Madrid in 1674, the Centinela contra judíos (“Sentinel against the Jews”) was the work of the Franciscan Francisco de Torrejoncillo, who wrote it to defend the mission of the Spanish Inquisition, to call for the expansion of discriminatory racial statutes and, finally, to advocate in favour of the expulsion of all the descendants of converted Jews from Spain and its empire. Francisco de Torrejoncillo combined the existing racial, theological, social and economic strands within Spanish anti-Semitism to demonize the Jews and their converted descendants in Spain in a manner designed to provoke strong emotional responses from its readership.
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Citation
Brill
ISBN
9789004250475
9004250476
9789004268876
9004268871

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