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Description
Lope de Vera y Alarcón was an Old Christian Hebraist at the University of Salamanca in the late 1630s. In his professional training, he had access to texts that few people in Spain were permitted to see. His subversive reading of Erasmus and the Hebrew diary of David Reuveni, among other works, were not the only factors in his becoming a "judaizer," but by his own account they were of great importance. The texts I will present are excerpts from his Inquisition trial (1639-1644).
This presentation is for the following text(s):
- Inquisition file of Lope de Vera y Alarcón (1639-1644)
Event Website
https://research.library.fordham.edu/emw/emw2009/
Start Date
25-8-2009 9:00 AM
Location
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University
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Cultural History Commons, European History Commons, History of Religion Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Reading and Language Commons
The Power of Texts in the Conversion of an Old Christian Hebraist
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University
Lope de Vera y Alarcón was an Old Christian Hebraist at the University of Salamanca in the late 1630s. In his professional training, he had access to texts that few people in Spain were permitted to see. His subversive reading of Erasmus and the Hebrew diary of David Reuveni, among other works, were not the only factors in his becoming a "judaizer," but by his own account they were of great importance. The texts I will present are excerpts from his Inquisition trial (1639-1644).
This presentation is for the following text(s):
- Inquisition file of Lope de Vera y Alarcón (1639-1644)
https://research.library.fordham.edu/emw/emw2009/emw2009/10
Comments
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