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T1 "Forget your people and your father's house": Teresa de Cartagena and the converso identity
A1 Ríos de la Llave, Rita Dolores
K1 Conversos
K1 Judíos
K1 Identidad individual
K1 Identidad colectiva
K1 Teresa de Cartagena
K1 Castilla
K1 Siglo XV
K1 New Christians
K1 Jews
K1 Identity
K1 Castile
K1 15th Century
K1 Humanidades
K1 Humanities
K1 Historia
K1 History
AB Religion is a very important factor to take into consideration in discussions about the identity of the conversos [converts] or New Christians, an emerging group in 15th-century Castile. Some historiographers believe they were really Jews who practised their religion in secret, while others consider that the Jewish identity of the conversos wasstimulated by the Spanish Inquisition, and that most were in fact true Christians. But the question of the converso identity is even more complex, as the case of Teresa de Cartagena shows. She was a nun who lived in Castile during the 15th century andwho practised Christianity in an orthodox way without renouncing her Jewish origin(though it is never declared explicitly).In the mid 15th century, Christians in the Iberian Peninsula considered conversos to be of Jewish lineage, which, for them, was more important than the fact they were Christians. In this context, Teresa de Cartagena"s reflections about her people and her father's house (which she identifies with her family) are highly significant. She refused to hide her origins and never pretended to be an old Christian, although this attitude wouldhave resulted in stigmatization from Christian society. This chapter examines Teresa de Cartagena"s testimony and compares it with that provided by Christian society and other conversos. This enables us to reflect about the importance of religion in defining individual and collective identity, oppositions between society and individual when identity is established, and about ways in which individualidentity is reaffirmed.
PB Edizione Plus
SN 978-88-8492-735-4
YR 2010
FD 2010-01-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27398
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27398
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024