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Hybrid conversos in the "Libro llamadeo el Alboraique."

Focuses on the "Libro llamado del Alboraique," a 1480s anonymous polemical pamphlet directed against conversos, people who were newly converted to Christianity. Coherence and originality of the text's central allegory, which equates the converts to Mohammed's hybrid steel; Cultural diversity of Spai...

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Published in:Hispanic Review Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18
Main Author: Gitlitz, David M.
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Winter1992
Subjects:
Polemics
Anti-Judaism literature
Christian converts from Judaism
Christian apologetics
Cultural pluralism
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Focuses on the "Libro llamado del Alboraique," a 1480s anonymous polemical pamphlet directed against conversos, people who were newly converted to Christianity. Coherence and originality of the text's central allegory, which equates the converts to Mohammed's hybrid steel; Cultural diversity of Spain in the late 15th century; Author's ambivalence with regard to wholesale condemnation of the converts.