TY - JOUR
T1 - Philosemitism in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Iberia
T2 - Refracted Judeophobia?
AU - Graizbord, David L.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The article examines selected evidence of Old Christian "philosemitism" from the mid-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in order to explain Judeophilia as a general phenomenon of early modern Iberian culture. In particular, the work dissects the relationship between the Judeophile ideas of a few inquisitorial suspects - some notorious, one unknown - and an inquisitorial culture of persecution fixated on real and imagined Judaizing. The argument is that socially dominant, Judeophobic notions of "Judaism" and "cleanness of blood" propagated in part by the Iberian Inquisitions shaped Judeophile identities. Thus, while the Judeophiles were in some sense unique, isolated, and highly idiosyncratic actors, their ideas and behavior may be understood collectively as a response to and modified reflection of Iberian Judeophobia, not as an independent phenomenon parallel to it.
AB - The article examines selected evidence of Old Christian "philosemitism" from the mid-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in order to explain Judeophilia as a general phenomenon of early modern Iberian culture. In particular, the work dissects the relationship between the Judeophile ideas of a few inquisitorial suspects - some notorious, one unknown - and an inquisitorial culture of persecution fixated on real and imagined Judaizing. The argument is that socially dominant, Judeophobic notions of "Judaism" and "cleanness of blood" propagated in part by the Iberian Inquisitions shaped Judeophile identities. Thus, while the Judeophiles were in some sense unique, isolated, and highly idiosyncratic actors, their ideas and behavior may be understood collectively as a response to and modified reflection of Iberian Judeophobia, not as an independent phenomenon parallel to it.
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U2 - 10.2307/20478482
DO - 10.2307/20478482
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:62249183726
SN - 0361-0160
VL - 38
SP - 657
EP - 682
JO - Sixteenth Century Journal
JF - Sixteenth Century Journal
IS - 3
ER -