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En la España Medieval, 2024
Bajo el amparo de María: Cautivos, renegados y conversos en los Milagros de la Virgen de Guadalup... more Bajo el amparo de María: Cautivos, renegados y conversos en los Milagros de la Virgen de Guadalupe y la expansión territorial castellana en el siglo XV ES Resumen. Este artículo explora cómo, a lo largo del siglo XV, la Virgen de Guadalupe fue caracterizada en la colección de milagros creada en el santuario extremeño como patrona de la expansión territorial castellana y en especial de los habitantes del sur, que suponían la avanzada militar castellana, aliviando sus principales preocupaciones y facilitando la conversión de los territorios islámicos y de sus habitantes. Para ello este explora cómo la representación de cautivos, renegados y conversos del Islam en los milagros, evolucionó junto al proyecto editorial de la colección como reflejo de la evolución paralela de los intereses territoriales de Castilla y la emergencia de una progresiva necesidad por reafirmar su control del Mediterráneo.
BULLETÍ DEL INSTITUT D’HISTÒRIA JAUME VICENS i VIVES, 2023
This research inquires into the role of the Virgin in the development, from the 13th to the 16th ... more This research inquires into the role of the Virgin in the development, from the 13th to the 16th century, of strategies of proselytism and religious accommodation directed at the Mudejar population from the former territories of al-Andalus, in the context of the Castilian colonial project, as well as in the articulation of an “inclusive” vision of Castilian society. Whit this aim, it addresses the means by which the Marian cult and its manifestations in the south of the peninsula were shaped to appeal to a multiconfessional audience and promote their religious conversion. This project also questions the political implications of the evolution of devotional culture and the changing conceptions of the Virgin in the Castilian religious imaginary, analyzing how these were related to the perception of religious minorities and their ability to integrate into Castilian society as a whole, through "Marian" forms of exclusion and resistance.
MEDIEVAL SERMON STUDIES, 2023
This paper explores how Hernando de Talavera (1428–1507), the first bishop of Granada, used the c... more This paper explores how Hernando de Talavera (1428–1507), the first bishop of Granada, used the cast sculptures of the Virgin commissioned by Queen Isabella the Castile (1451–1504), for the parishes of the Albayzín, the Morisco quarter, as an essential tool for his missionary activity among Granada’s native Islamic population. It enquires how Talavera granted these Marian cast sculptures a central role in the Albayzin’s liturgical celebration, mediating their interpretation by devotional texts, such as his Marian liturgical works or his translation and commentary of the Vita Christi of the Franciscan Francesc Eiximenis (1327–1409), through which he wished to present these images as representations of an ‘Islamicate’ vision of Mary, as an enlightened prophetess who would function as the ideal preacher to instruct the newly converted Morisco population in the principles of their new faith.
Pensando Andalucía Una visión transdisciplinar, 2019
This article tries to explore the strategies of religious proselytism and accommodation found in ... more This article tries to explore the strategies of religious proselytism and accommodation found in the codices of the Cantigas de Santa María, produced after the Andalusian Mudejar uprising of 1264. With this aim, it analyzes the proliferation in the Cantigas of an Islamized vision of Mary and a rhetoric of compassion, based in the promise of Marian protection, through which the song-book tried to promote a Marian geography
of divine agency, that was thought to facilitate the repopulation, assimilation and control of the colonial territory. In addition, the article enquires how these strategies of accommodation were extended to the contexts of reception of the Castilian song-book, studying its relation with visual and musical aspects of the Cantigas’ ritual performance and addressing the variation of these strategies according to the different demographic and geopolitical circumstances of each of these contexts of reception.
Anuario de Estudios Medievales (CSIC), 2020
This paper presents a new interpretation of the cast sculptures of the Virgin commissioned from t... more This paper presents a new interpretation of the cast sculptures of the Virgin commissioned from the sculptor Huberto Alemán by Queen Isabella the Catholic and Archbishop Hernando de Tala-vera for the parishes responsible for the religious instruction of recently converted Moriscos in early sixteenth-century Granada. I will explore how the "islamicate" vision of the Virgin of Eiximenis' Vita Christi, previously translated and printed by Talavera as part of his missionary project, could have been used by the archbishop in order to disseminate an interpretation of these Marian images as a key element in the spiritual education of the Moriscos of the Albaicín quarter in Granada.
Religions, 2019
This paper examines the religious proselytizing agenda of the order of Saint Jerome that ruled th... more This paper examines the religious proselytizing agenda of the order of Saint Jerome that ruled the Extremaduran sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe since 1389. To this end, I analyze how the Hieronymite's used literary motifs such as dreams and light in the codex of the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe to create a multi-confessional audience for their collection of miracles. I contend that these motifs were chosen because they were key elements in the construction of a particular image of the Virgin that could appeal to pilgrims of different faiths. Through them, the Hieronymites evoked in the minds of Muslim pilgrims and Christian captives beyond the sea the imagery and rhetoric of Sufi devotional literature and Islamic hagiography, in order to create a vision of the Virgin that was able to compete with the more important Islamic devotional figures: the Prophet, Sufi masters and charismatic saints. Finally, I explore how the possible influence of North African devotional models, such as the Shadhiliyya order or the hagiography of the Tunisian saint, Aisha al-Manubiyya, suggests that the aims of the monastic authors of this Marian miracles collection went far beyond the conversion of Castilian Muslims, aiming at the transformation of the Extremaduran Marian sanctuary of Guadalupe into a Mediterranean devotional center.
Entremons. UPF Journal of World History, 2017
This article tries to explore the strategies of memory manipulation typical of Castilian imperial... more This article tries to explore the strategies of memory manipulation typical of Castilian imperial war propaganda, developed first during the expansionist campaign against the Islamic kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula in the late Middle Ages and later in the conquest of the New Spanish territory and the expansion of the colonized land beyond the borders of the former Aztec Empire, and its role in the formation of local memories and identities, especially in the settlements located on the border. With this aim, this article proposes a contextualized interpretation of the “Códices de las Historias” of Castilian song-book the Cantigas de Santa María, produced during the Castilian campaign against the Mudejar uprising of 1264 and the resulting War of Granada, and of the murals of the Agustinian convent of Ixmiquilpan, elaborated at a critical moment of the “Chichimeca War”, conceiving both of them as prominent transmisors of the contemporaneous Castilian imperial war propaganda.
En la España Medieval, 2024
Bajo el amparo de María: Cautivos, renegados y conversos en los Milagros de la Virgen de Guadalup... more Bajo el amparo de María: Cautivos, renegados y conversos en los Milagros de la Virgen de Guadalupe y la expansión territorial castellana en el siglo XV ES Resumen. Este artículo explora cómo, a lo largo del siglo XV, la Virgen de Guadalupe fue caracterizada en la colección de milagros creada en el santuario extremeño como patrona de la expansión territorial castellana y en especial de los habitantes del sur, que suponían la avanzada militar castellana, aliviando sus principales preocupaciones y facilitando la conversión de los territorios islámicos y de sus habitantes. Para ello este explora cómo la representación de cautivos, renegados y conversos del Islam en los milagros, evolucionó junto al proyecto editorial de la colección como reflejo de la evolución paralela de los intereses territoriales de Castilla y la emergencia de una progresiva necesidad por reafirmar su control del Mediterráneo.
BULLETÍ DEL INSTITUT D’HISTÒRIA JAUME VICENS i VIVES, 2023
This research inquires into the role of the Virgin in the development, from the 13th to the 16th ... more This research inquires into the role of the Virgin in the development, from the 13th to the 16th century, of strategies of proselytism and religious accommodation directed at the Mudejar population from the former territories of al-Andalus, in the context of the Castilian colonial project, as well as in the articulation of an “inclusive” vision of Castilian society. Whit this aim, it addresses the means by which the Marian cult and its manifestations in the south of the peninsula were shaped to appeal to a multiconfessional audience and promote their religious conversion. This project also questions the political implications of the evolution of devotional culture and the changing conceptions of the Virgin in the Castilian religious imaginary, analyzing how these were related to the perception of religious minorities and their ability to integrate into Castilian society as a whole, through "Marian" forms of exclusion and resistance.
MEDIEVAL SERMON STUDIES, 2023
This paper explores how Hernando de Talavera (1428–1507), the first bishop of Granada, used the c... more This paper explores how Hernando de Talavera (1428–1507), the first bishop of Granada, used the cast sculptures of the Virgin commissioned by Queen Isabella the Castile (1451–1504), for the parishes of the Albayzín, the Morisco quarter, as an essential tool for his missionary activity among Granada’s native Islamic population. It enquires how Talavera granted these Marian cast sculptures a central role in the Albayzin’s liturgical celebration, mediating their interpretation by devotional texts, such as his Marian liturgical works or his translation and commentary of the Vita Christi of the Franciscan Francesc Eiximenis (1327–1409), through which he wished to present these images as representations of an ‘Islamicate’ vision of Mary, as an enlightened prophetess who would function as the ideal preacher to instruct the newly converted Morisco population in the principles of their new faith.
Pensando Andalucía Una visión transdisciplinar, 2019
This article tries to explore the strategies of religious proselytism and accommodation found in ... more This article tries to explore the strategies of religious proselytism and accommodation found in the codices of the Cantigas de Santa María, produced after the Andalusian Mudejar uprising of 1264. With this aim, it analyzes the proliferation in the Cantigas of an Islamized vision of Mary and a rhetoric of compassion, based in the promise of Marian protection, through which the song-book tried to promote a Marian geography
of divine agency, that was thought to facilitate the repopulation, assimilation and control of the colonial territory. In addition, the article enquires how these strategies of accommodation were extended to the contexts of reception of the Castilian song-book, studying its relation with visual and musical aspects of the Cantigas’ ritual performance and addressing the variation of these strategies according to the different demographic and geopolitical circumstances of each of these contexts of reception.
Anuario de Estudios Medievales (CSIC), 2020
This paper presents a new interpretation of the cast sculptures of the Virgin commissioned from t... more This paper presents a new interpretation of the cast sculptures of the Virgin commissioned from the sculptor Huberto Alemán by Queen Isabella the Catholic and Archbishop Hernando de Tala-vera for the parishes responsible for the religious instruction of recently converted Moriscos in early sixteenth-century Granada. I will explore how the "islamicate" vision of the Virgin of Eiximenis' Vita Christi, previously translated and printed by Talavera as part of his missionary project, could have been used by the archbishop in order to disseminate an interpretation of these Marian images as a key element in the spiritual education of the Moriscos of the Albaicín quarter in Granada.
Religions, 2019
This paper examines the religious proselytizing agenda of the order of Saint Jerome that ruled th... more This paper examines the religious proselytizing agenda of the order of Saint Jerome that ruled the Extremaduran sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe since 1389. To this end, I analyze how the Hieronymite's used literary motifs such as dreams and light in the codex of the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe to create a multi-confessional audience for their collection of miracles. I contend that these motifs were chosen because they were key elements in the construction of a particular image of the Virgin that could appeal to pilgrims of different faiths. Through them, the Hieronymites evoked in the minds of Muslim pilgrims and Christian captives beyond the sea the imagery and rhetoric of Sufi devotional literature and Islamic hagiography, in order to create a vision of the Virgin that was able to compete with the more important Islamic devotional figures: the Prophet, Sufi masters and charismatic saints. Finally, I explore how the possible influence of North African devotional models, such as the Shadhiliyya order or the hagiography of the Tunisian saint, Aisha al-Manubiyya, suggests that the aims of the monastic authors of this Marian miracles collection went far beyond the conversion of Castilian Muslims, aiming at the transformation of the Extremaduran Marian sanctuary of Guadalupe into a Mediterranean devotional center.
Entremons. UPF Journal of World History, 2017
This article tries to explore the strategies of memory manipulation typical of Castilian imperial... more This article tries to explore the strategies of memory manipulation typical of Castilian imperial war propaganda, developed first during the expansionist campaign against the Islamic kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula in the late Middle Ages and later in the conquest of the New Spanish territory and the expansion of the colonized land beyond the borders of the former Aztec Empire, and its role in the formation of local memories and identities, especially in the settlements located on the border. With this aim, this article proposes a contextualized interpretation of the “Códices de las Historias” of Castilian song-book the Cantigas de Santa María, produced during the Castilian campaign against the Mudejar uprising of 1264 and the resulting War of Granada, and of the murals of the Agustinian convent of Ixmiquilpan, elaborated at a critical moment of the “Chichimeca War”, conceiving both of them as prominent transmisors of the contemporaneous Castilian imperial war propaganda.