From Doubt to Unbelief: Forms of Scepticism in the Iberian World

Mercedes García-Arenal; Stefania Pastore

From Doubt to Unbelief
Forms of Scepticism in the Iberian World

Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal and Stefania Pastore

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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 42

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28 August 2019 • 318pp

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This volume delves into the question of how, in an Iberian world apparently far removed from the battlegrounds of modernity and secularisation, doubt and unbelief found fertile soil, stimulated by social and religious developments. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, the contributors show how the crisis of identity produced by forced mass conversion touched off inner crises about the nature of Truth. By tracing the path from medieval Spain to the Spanish Inquisition, and from the great literary and artistic works of the Spanish Baroque to Sephardic Marranism, this volume fills a historiographical gap in European social and intellectual history, demonstrating the importance of the Iberian world in the evolution of European scepticism.

Mercedes García-Arenal is Research Professor at CSIC, Madrid, and Stefania Pastore is Associate Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. They work on tolerance and dissent in Early Modern Iberia: on forced conversion, on the violent world of the Inquisition and the debates and protests that it sparked, and on the complex interplay of minorities. They have recently collaborated on After Conversion. Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity (Brill, 2016) and, as editors, Visiones imperiales y profecía. Roma, España, Nuevo Mundo (Abada, 2018).

Reviews:

‘This outstanding volume brings together thirteen essays on scepticism and religious dissent in late medieval and early modern Spain, Portugal and Italy... The joint enterprise represented by this exceptional volume ‘has led the way to a variety of new panoramas and unexpected itineraries’ (14). Anyone prompted to pursue these further will find here an indispensable resource and an inspiring example.’ — Eamonn Rodgers, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 98.3, 2021, 479-80
‘Scholars of early modern Europe will find much to draw upon in these two volumes [jointly reviewed was Fuchs and García-Arenal, eds, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550–1700]. The strongest chapters focus on religious and theological issues of doubt and uncertainty, but we get many case studies in other areas of knowledge that found ways to navigate the murky waters of the early modern world. Most of the chapters will make fruitful material for graduate seminars and reading groups, but the books’ greatest merit is how well they work together both as individual volumes and as complementary conversations. Editors of collected volumes should take note.’ — Erudition and the Republic of Letters 7, 2022, 355-63 (María M. Portuondo)

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ix-ix	Acknowledgements Mercedes García-Arenal, Stefania Pastore doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.3	Cite
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x-xii	Notes On the Contributors Mercedes García-Arenal, Stefania Pastore doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.4	Cite
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1-16	Introduction Mercedes García-Arenal, Stefania Pastore doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.5	Cite
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19-33	Chapter 1 Not Scepticism, But Certainty: A Different Plea For Toleration in Late Medieval Spain Maurice Kriegel doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.6	Cite
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34-52	Chapter 2 the Three Rings: Shevet Yehuda-Lessing / Graetz-Fritz Ishaq Baer Eleazar Gutwirth doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.7	Cite
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53-72	Chapter 3 What Faith To Believe? Vacillation, Comparativism and Doubt Mercedes García-Arenal doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.8	Cite
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75-89	Chapter 4 Dubius in Fide, Infidelis Est: Between Faith and Heresy, Is There A Place For Doubt? Isabelle Poutrin doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.9	Cite
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90-106	Chapter 5 Pyrrhonism and Unbelief: Diego Hurtado De Mendoza and the Spanish Tradition Stefania Pastore doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.10	Cite
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107-122	Chapter 6 Unbelief, Deism and Libertinism in Sixteenth-Century Italy Luca Addante doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.11	Cite
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125-142	Chapter 7 All Things To All People: Baltasar Gracián, Dissimulation and the Question of Interpretation Jeremy Robbins doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.12	Cite
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143-170	Chapter 8 the Concept of Doubt in the Trial of Miguel De Molinos (1687) and in the Controversy Over Quietism Fernando Rodríguez Mediano doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.13	Cite
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171-190	Chapter 9 the Art of Believing in Golden Age Spain Felipe Pereda doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.14	Cite
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193-203	Chapter 10 Decircumcising the Heart: the Eucharist and Conversion in Calderón’s El Socorro General Matthew Ancell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.15	Cite
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204-224	Chapter 11 Marrano Emotions: Francisco López De Villalobos José Luis Villacañas doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.16	Cite
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225-238	Chapter 12 Literary Discourse Between the Eternal Validity of the Torah and Philosophical Doubt: the Polemical Writings of Abraham Gómez Silveira (1656–1741) Harm den Boer doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.17	Cite
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239-267	Chapter 13 Uriel Da Costa’s Career: An Interpretation Miriam Bodian doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.18	Cite
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268-296	Bibliography Mercedes García-Arenal, Stefania Pastore doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.19	Cite
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297-306	Index Mercedes García-Arenal, Stefania Pastore doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0hq.20	Cite
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From Doubt to UnbeliefForms of Scepticism in the Iberian World

Edited by Mercedes García-Arenal and Stefania Pastore

From Doubt to Unbelief
Forms of Scepticism in the Iberian World