This dissertation is a study of the Inquisitor events in the Order of Saint Jerome at the end of the fifteenth century. In the year 1485 the first of a series of Inquisitions was established in the Jeronimite chapter of Guadalupe, in Caceres Spain. The names of thirty friars wer…
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The following dissertation is a contextual comparative study of two distant geographies and time frames, where separate architectural and artistic expressions came into being under similar circumstances: Toulouse in the aftermath of the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229), and Serre…
The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate that the Cathar community of Languedoc, far from being heretics as is generally thought, practiced an early form of Christianity. A few scholars have suggested this interpretation of the Cathar beliefs, but none have pursued it …
This study in two parts reexamines the notion that Don Quixote was originally seen as no more than a humorous story, and suggests that due to a variety of factors, a closer, more exegetical reading of the text may well be appropriate. In the first section of this work, focus is …
This thesis argues that early nineteenth-century Spanish literature portraying the Inquisition depends on the unmodern to define modernity. It explores this subject, neglected in Peninsular Hispanism until recently, in novels printed in France, Britain, and Spain: Luis Gutiérrez…
In the fifteenth century Iberian societies hotly debated the religious identities of the Jews who accepted Christianity under duress during and after the pogroms of 1391. This study looks at the religious practices of two converts from Ciudad Real as a microcosm of the converso …
This dissertation investigates the cultural construction of a modern global diaspora by foregrounding the historical, linguistic and nationalist contexts embedded in literary works produced over the last two centuries, written by a diverse collection of writers who imagine a pre…
This dissertation examines and recontextualizes the Mih[dotbelow]na, the inquisition of 218/833-234/848. I argue that the Mih[dotbelow]na was an expression by the caliphs of their ability to limit and control the boundaries of orthodoxy. The first chapter examines the secondary …
The present study argues that the Iberian weave of Andalusi convivencia, which for centuries was characterized by a multicultural cohabitation (hardly harmonious and peaceful, and yet focusing on the border as a line of contiguity and not exclusion), continued to be imbedded in …
This project centers on two inquisitorial investigations which began in the 1540s. One is from Spain (Valencia), and the other from Mexico (Yanhuitlan, Oaxaca). The first involves relations between Muslims and Catholics, and the second relations between Native Americans and Euro…