An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559)

Stefania Pastore is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy). She has published widely on the history of religious minorities and dissent in Iberia and Italy, and most recently Doubt to Unbelief: Forms of Skepticism in the Iberian World, co-edited with Mercedes García-Arenal (2019).

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Prologue



Introduction



1 The Weight of the Old Law: the Converso Tradition and Hernando de Talavera (1487)

 1 Toledo, 1449

 2 Alonso de Cartagena

 3 Scripture and Perfection: Alonso de Oropesa and the Hieronymite Tradition

 4 Christian-Judaic Syncretism and Heterodoxy

 5 Hernando de Talavera and his Católica impugnación



2 The New Inquisition on Trial: the “Errors” of Juan de Lucena, Apostolic Protonotary (1493)

 1 De Vita Beata

 2 The Two Juan de Lucenas

 3 A Treatise against the Inquisition

 4 The Inquisition Trials



3 Profetism and Criticism of the Inquisition: the Visions of Pero López de Soria (1519)

 1 Castilian Cities against the Inquisition

 2 The Prophecy of the Bat: Fray Melchor and Francisco de Cisneros

 3 Pero López de Soria (1519)

 4 The Talavera Legend



4 “True Peace” and Universal Salvation: the Revelation of Juan del Castillo and Juan López de Celaín (1526)

 1 “Calling a Black Man John White”: Alumbrados, Inquisitors, Interpreters

 2 Alumbrados and converses

 3 “The Trumpet and Fife of True Reformation”: Juan López de Celaín

 4 “Such an Easy Yoke”: Juan del Castillo

 5 Juan López de Celaín in Granada

 6 The Inquisition’s Repression, and Escapes



5 In Talavera’s Shadow: Juan de Valdés’s Diálogo de Doctrina Christiana (1529)

 1 Cuenca (1491−1512): Conversos and Inquisitors

 2 Alcalá

 3 Valdés’ Diálogo de doctrina Cristiana

 4 “Think, Sir, that you Hear Him and not Me”: Juan de Valdés’s Granada



6 “Such a Gentle Religion”: A Sevillan Perspective

 1 The Crest of the Valdés Wave

 2 Spiritualism and Impeccability: Juan Gil, “el doctor Egidio”

 3 Seville and Valdesianism: Constantino Ponce de la Fuente

 4 The Sevillian Heresy: a Rereading

 5 Lutheran Certainties, Converso Consolations: Juan de Ávila

 6 A Spanish Heresy?



7 Conversos, Alumbrados, and Diasporas in the Twentieth Century: Talking about Spanish Identity



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