Truth in Many Tongues: Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire

Author:   Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler (Associate Professor, Lumen Christi Institute)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
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9780271085999


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   04 March 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler (Associate Professor, Lumen Christi Institute)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780271085999


ISBN 10:   0271085991
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   04 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on the Text Introduction 1. The Spanish Language and the Inquisition, ca. 1550–1600 2. Arabic and Spanish in Granada, ca. 1492–1570 3. Arabic and Romance in Valencia, ca. 1540–1600 4. Native Tongues and Spanish in New Spain, ca. 1520–85 5. Creating a Multilingual New Spain, ca. 1550–1600 Conclusion Appendix: Linguistic Abilities of Franciscan Friars in Sixteenth-Century New Spain Notes Bibliography Index

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This book offers an exciting glimpse into the development of Spanish linguistic policy regarding conquered peoples in the early modern period on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a courageous undertaking confronting the Spanish efforts to evangelize first the Arabic speakers devoted to Islam on the Iberian Peninsula and then come to grips with the multifaceted linguistic challenge of converting indigenous peoples in the Americas to Christianity. -John Schwaller, author of The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America


This book will no doubt encourage scholars to test further the bird's eye view of changing norms against the social history of Spanish in the Iberian and colonial overseas contexts, where multiple languages and cultures coexisted and transformed, and the hierarchies among them endured. -John Charles, Colonial Latin American Review This book offers an exciting glimpse into the development of Spanish linguistic policy regarding conquered peoples in the early modern period on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a courageous undertaking, confronting the Spanish efforts to evangelize first the Arabic speakers devoted to Islam on the Iberian Peninsula and then come to grips with the multifaceted linguistic challenge of converting indigenous peoples in the Americas to Christianity. -John Schwaller, author of The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America


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Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler is Associate Professor of History at Alma College.

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