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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 judios ( 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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Author:   Francois Soyer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   54
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.673kg
ISBN:  

9789004250475

ISBN 10:   9004250476
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   07 March 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgements ... vii Abbreviations ... ix List of Illustrations and Maps ... xi Maps ... xii Illustrations ... xv Foreword ... xxi SECTION ONE A HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF THE CENTINELA CONTRA JUDIOS 1. Seventeenth-Century Spain and its 'Jewish Problem': The Centinela contra Judios and its Historical Context ... 3 2. Religion and Blood: 'Religious Anti-Semitism' in Early Modern Spain ... 19 3. Authorship, History and Impact of the Centinela contra Judios ... 47 4. Anti-Semitic Propaganda and Pedagogy: Fear Mongering in the Centinela contra Judios ...75 Conclusion ... 99 SECTION TWO TRANSLATION OF THE CENTINELA CONTRA JUDIOS Foreword to the Translation ... 105 Introductory Poem ... 107 Prologue ... 109 1. How the Jews are, and always have been, arrogant and liars ... 111 2. That the Jews are, and have been, traitors ... 117 3. How the Jews came to be disdained and humbled ... 139 4. How the Jews are persecutors of our Holy Catholic Faith ... 145 5. That those who favour Jews because of the benefit that they receive in return will never come to a good end. Nor will they prosper with them ... 161 6. Why the Jews should not be trusted, nor should any faith be placed in their deeds ... 175 7. Regarding the anxiety with which the Jews await the coming of the Messiah ... 185 8. How the Jews, wherever they may be, stick together and form a Mystical Body ... 197 9. Why they were called Hebrews, Israelites and Jews and why and how, in ancient times, they came to be called Marranos ... 205 10. How the Jews, in addition to being opposed to our Holy Faith, are our mortal enemies ... 219 11. Regarding the signs by which Divine Providence differentiates the Jews ... 237 12. How the Jews are restless, vainglorious and seditious and ordinarily sow discord wherever they are ... 251 13. How the Hebrews do not presently possess any honour, or nobility whatsoever, and they lost that which they possessed with the death of Christ ... 263 14. Regarding the mercy with which our Mother Church treats the Jews, and will continue to treat them, and how far its obligations extend ... 273 Appendix ... 285 Bibliography ... 303 ndex ... 315

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Francois Soyer, Ph.D. (2007), University of Cambridge, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is currently a lecturer in early modern history at Southampton (UK) and an Australian Research Council research fellow at the University of Adelaide (Australia).

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