The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain

Catherine Infante

Published by University of Toronto Press 2022

The Arts of Encounter

Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain

Catherine Infante

In the series Toronto Iberic

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487509316

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About this book

The Arts of Encounter uncovers the significant role of religious images in literature, offering a new approach to understanding Christian-Muslim relations in early modern Spain.

Author information

InfanteCatherine:

Catherine Infante is an assistant professor of Spanish at Amherst College.

Reviews

Luis F. Bernabé, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Alicante:

"Infante's masterly book shows the complexities of the relations between Muslims and Christians in early modern Spain. Her interdisciplinary, clear-sighted analysis of the ‘arts of encounter’ of believers around religious images proves both the blurring of religious identities and the influence of the cultural environment on the perception of religion. With an astounding erudition, this book is highly valuable reading for those interested in Spain’s Golden Age."

Laura R. Bass, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and History of Art and Architecture, Brown University:

"One of the great strengths of Catherine Infante’s book is her use of textual and visual sources from both Catholic and Islamic perspectives, within Iberia and beyond. The result is a highly nuanced account of the ways authors, authorities, and even ordinary people deployed images to justify or contest forced conversion and expulsion, to shape historical memory and local belonging, and to proclaim or repudiate religious faith."

Javier Irigoyen-García, Professor of Spanish, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

"Catherine Infante’s book is a fascinating study of the role that devotional images had in the interactions between Muslims and Christians in both early modern Spain and the Mediterranean. Drawing from a wide range of sources – from visual culture to historiographical, theological, and literary texts – Infante analyses how devotional images circulated across religious boundaries and how Islamic alleged iconoclasm was perceived and negotiated within the context of the Morisco population in Spain, thus providing a refreshing perspective on Muslim-Christian relations."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note on Translations and Transliterations Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Moriscos between Cross and Crescent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2 Text against Image in Moriscos’ Literary Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
3 Granada and the Poetics of Sacred Space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
4 Marian Images of Conversion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5 Images of Mary on the Battlefield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6 Captive Images and Forged Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
- Other: 18 b&w illustrations
Keywords: early modern Spain; Renaissance; Christian-Muslim encounters; Moriscos; religious images; Mediterranean; virgin Mary; golden age literature; captivity; visual culture; art history; Inquisition; Aljamiado

eBook

Published: March 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781487509316