The 12 articles of this volume show the many facets of contact in al-Andalus and Medieval Iberia, reminding us of how contact influenced art and learning in a wide range of fields: politics, science, philosophy, music and religion; offering views of how contact between societies…
This volume show the many facets of contact in al-Andalus and Medieval Iberia, with issues still vital after more than a millennium as cultures face off and open or close frontiers to ideas, customs, ideologies and the arts.
The historical context of purity-of-blood discrimination (1391-1547) -- Early Jesuit pro-converso policy (1540-72) -- Discrimination against Jesuits of Jewish lineage (1573-93) -- Jesuit opposition to the purity of blood discrimination (1576-1608).
In "The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews" the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it.