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Books by Sara Nalle

Oleana: Cuadernos de Cultura Comarcal, 2024

Este artículo investiga las conexiones entre los comuneros de Requena y Moya en el contexto de u... more Este artículo investiga las conexiones entre los comuneros de Requena y
Moya en el contexto de una rebelión contra el marqués de Moya que estalló en septiembre, 1520. La rebelión alcanzó incluir pueblos cercanos como Iniesta y La Motilla, y tropas procedentes de Valencia, todos los cuales querían acabar con sus señores y volver al realengo, o en el caso de Requena, conservar su condición como villa privilegiada de la Corona de Castilla. La investigación se basa principalmente en fuentes primarias de la época y corrige algunos de los errores factuales que perduran en la historiografía de las Comunidades.

In Yosef Kaplan, ed., Early Modern Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Exile. Cambridge UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2017, 144-74., 2017

Contrary to the common perception, after the 1492 expulsion of the Jews, many individuals returne... more Contrary to the common perception, after the 1492 expulsion of the Jews, many individuals returned to their hometowns in Castile. Using the autobiographical statements of many such returnees (retornados), this article discusses the experiences of many who left Spain only to return again.

The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches, ed. Kimberly Lynn and Erin Kathleen Rowe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 89–118.

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Translation of _Mad for God: Bartolomé Sánchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete_ (U. Viriginia Pr... more Translation of _Mad for God: Bartolomé Sánchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete_ (U. Viriginia Press, 2001; http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/nalle.html).

Monograph on the impact of the Tridentine reforms in Spain. Includes studies of inquisitorial ac... more Monograph on the impact of the Tridentine reforms in Spain. Includes studies of inquisitorial activity, episcopal policy, and quantitative studies of the parish clergy, catechization, confraternity membership, and death rituals. This version unfortunately does not include the graphs, tables, maps, and illustrations, but the full book is available at libro.uca.edu.

Papers by Sara Nalle

The egodocuments presented to the seminar are Inquisitorial confessions of second-generation &quo... more The egodocuments presented to the seminar are Inquisitorial confessions of second-generation "nuevos convertidos" who in one way or another were caught between their parents' desire to maintain contact with Judaism and their own alleged desire to assimilate as Spanish Catholics. This presentation is for the following text(s): Trial of Francisco Martinez, apothocary, resident of Deza Trial of Gaspar de San Clemente Copyright © 2012 Early Modern Workshop EMW Workshops

The American Historical Review, 2004

Journal of Family History vol. 42(3): 236-49., 2017

Using a variety of archival sources, this article traces the transition in Cuenca, Spain, from th... more Using a variety of archival sources, this article traces the transition in Cuenca, Spain, from the bilateral family system that predominated in late medieval Castile to the final triumph of the patrilineal, agnatic family system in the seventeenth century. The central measure of this transition is the interlocking fates of the dowry and the arras (bride price). As the patriarchal, patrilineal family became entrenched during a period of demographic crisis, the price of dowries skyrocketed while the bride price declined in value and ultimately disappeared. The article includes a discussion of funding strategies for the dowry, inheritance law, and the degree of homogamy in marriages which relied on the dowry system

Journal of Early Modern History 20 165-181, 2016

This article adds another dimension to the debate whether Jewish modernity originated with the Ha... more This article adds another dimension to the debate whether Jewish modernity originated with the Haskalah in eighteenth-century Germany or among the Sephardic Jews living in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Noting that one element of modernity was rationalism, the author uses two commonly employed indices of rationalism (literacy and numeracy) to find that the most literate and numerate of Castile's various socioeconomic or ethnic groups were the Luso-conversos who settled in Castile in the seventeenth century---members of the Nação, the group at the center of the debate over Amsterdam's contribution to Jewish modernity. Another aspect of modernity involves an awareness of chronological time. In this respect as well members of the Nação viewed their lives somewhat differently than did others. These traits, coupled with the well-documented skepticism and secularism of the group, point to marked quantifiable differences between the Sephardim and their Castilian and Portuguese contemporaries.

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 11.1 (2016): 69–89. , 2016

The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond. Vol. 3. Displaced Persons. Brill. , 2015

In 1536 Inquisitor Cortés initiated a 20-year-long campaign against the New Christians of the dio... more In 1536 Inquisitor Cortés initiated a 20-year-long campaign against the New Christians of the diocese of Sigüenza. Those who converted in 1492 were treated far more harshly than those who converted at an earlier date. The tribunal's ruthless prosecution of the conversos is illustrated in the story of one highly placed individual who was caught in the Inquisition's dragnet. An appendix reproduces a contemporary anti-Semitic poem from the prison.

by J. B. (Jack) Owens, Miguel Nogueira, Margrit Schulte Beerbuehl, Vicente Montojo Montojo, Myriam Senn, Rila Mukherjee, Luís Miguel Moreira, David Alonso Garcia, Amândio J M Barros, Hilario Casado Alonso, and Sara Nalle

Owens, J. B. & Polónia da Silva, Amélia, “Scientific Report: TECT Networking Workshop (University... more Owens, J. B. & Polónia da Silva, Amélia, “Scientific Report: TECT Networking Workshop (University of Porto, Portugal), 26-29 March 2008; “Trust, Reputation, Defectors, and Sustaining Social Norms: Studying spatially complex cooperative relationships in ways that connect TECT projects” [23 pages; 11,000 words]. Prepared for the European Science Foundation’s EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme’s program “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading” (TECT), Strasbourg, France, 1 June 2008.

article published in 1996 in Moya: Estudios y documentos 1 (Cuenca: Diputación de Cuenca), 93-102... more article published in 1996 in Moya: Estudios y documentos 1 (Cuenca: Diputación de Cuenca), 93-102. Relying on unpublished sources from the archives of Simancas, Cuenca and Requena, the article traces in detail the extensive anti-señorial rebellions in the province of Cuenca during the Comunero Revolt, and follows the fortunes of the comuneros of Cardenete after the rebellion as they sought to return the town to royal jurisdiction.

published in M.C. de Carlos, P. Civil, F. Pereda, and C Vincent-Cassy, eds., La imagen rellgiosa en la Monarquía hispánica, Coll. de la Casa de Velázquez (104), 2008, pp. 255-272.

A study of bequests of religious objects and artwork in early modern Spain shows that women were ... more A study of bequests of religious objects and artwork in early modern Spain shows that women were the primary collectors of religious art. Moreover, their relationship to their religious objects differed in many ways from that of the men in the study. Research based on testaments drown up between 1505 and 1655 in Cuenca, Castile.

published in James Tracy & Marguerite Ragnow, eds., Religion and the Early Modern State. Views from China, Russia, and the West. Cambridge U.P., 2004 (302-323).

A signal aspect of the Counter-Reformation was its attempt to link exterior signals of faith with... more A signal aspect of the Counter-Reformation was its attempt to link exterior signals of faith with interior belief. In this article I show how this was accomplished by studying anti-blasphemy campaigns, reform of sexual mores, and change in death practices. The net result of these changes was to create an interiority or self-awareness among Catholics that is parallel to developments in Reformation Europe.

The cult of San Julián, second bishop of Cuenca, languished for centuries until an ambitious cath... more The cult of San Julián, second bishop of Cuenca, languished for centuries until an ambitious cathedral chapter tried to promote the saint in the sixteenth century. Ultimately, however, the saint only gained true popularity when, in the seventeenth century, Julian was found effective against the plague. Written before Kleinberg's _Prophets in Their Own Country_, which would have provided a great framework for the article.

Using book store inventories and the testimony of Inquisition defendants, the article demonstrate... more Using book store inventories and the testimony of Inquisition defendants, the article demonstrates that 1) male literacy rates were much higher in this period than previously thought; 2) readers's books were generally related to their educational level, profession, age and gender, but not always so (fiction being the big exception); and 3) booksellers adjusted their inventory to address the market.

Examines both the chronicles and inquisitorial evidence to arrive at an analysis of the changing ... more Examines both the chronicles and inquisitorial evidence to arrive at an analysis of the changing legend of El Encubierto.

Oleana: Cuadernos de Cultura Comarcal, 2024

In Yosef Kaplan, ed., Early Modern Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Exile. Cambridge UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2017, 144-74., 2017

The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches, ed. Kimberly Lynn and Erin Kathleen Rowe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 89–118.

see below in publications for full information.

The American Historical Review, 2004

Journal of Family History vol. 42(3): 236-49., 2017

Journal of Early Modern History 20 165-181, 2016

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 11.1 (2016): 69–89. , 2016

The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond. Vol. 3. Displaced Persons. Brill. , 2015

published in M.C. de Carlos, P. Civil, F. Pereda, and C Vincent-Cassy, eds., La imagen rellgiosa en la Monarquía hispánica, Coll. de la Casa de Velázquez (104), 2008, pp. 255-272.

published in James Tracy & Marguerite Ragnow, eds., Religion and the Early Modern State. Views from China, Russia, and the West. Cambridge U.P., 2004 (302-323).

During the second half of the sixteenth century, the Inquisition joined in the church's efforts t... more During the second half of the sixteenth century, the Inquisition joined in the church's efforts to teach all Spaniards key Tridentine attitudes regarding everyday religious and moral behavior. To reach the rural population, the Inquisition relied heavily on networks of local officials who investigated cases and relayed messages and prisoners to the central courts. This article examines in detail one of these networks, the comisarios of the tribunal of Cuenca, who were drawn from the parish clergy of the district's smaller towns. In Cuenca, comisarios effectively increased the Inquisition's ability to process a high volume of trials aimed at eradicating mistaken popular religious beliefs and attitudes.
Published in the Sixteenth Century Journal, XVIII, No. 4, Winter 1987

The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches, ed. Kimberly Lynn and Erin Kathleen Rowe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 89–118. , 2017

"This essay reveals the existence of two distinct converso minorities in the old Bishopric of Sig... more "This essay reveals the existence of two distinct converso minorities in the old Bishopric of Sigüenza: those who converted ca. 1391 and those who converted in 1492. Using a variety of measures drawn from anthropology and sociology, I show that in terms of their ethnic identity, the antiguos and nuevos convertidos were two completely separate groups which had virtually nothing to do with one another. The paper challenges us to rethink the nature of converso identity in the 16th century.

Appeared in The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches, ed. Kimberly Lynn and Erin Kathleen Rowe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 89–118.

STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS, Jan 1, 1998

The article reviews the various outbreaks of millennial fervor in Castile and Valencia at the beg... more The article reviews the various outbreaks of millennial fervor in Castile and Valencia at the beginning of the sixteenth century, and concludes with reflections on why Valencia was more receptive to millennial revolution while Castile was not.

Using the inventories from five Castilian bookshops, this article examines the pricing and stocki... more Using the inventories from five Castilian bookshops, this article examines the pricing and stocking strategies of booksellers in the sixteenth century. In terms of volume, cheap devotional texts predominated the market for books and pamphlets, but they were not important to most booksellers in terms of their overall value. The article ends with an example of religious reading gone astray and speculates on the reasons why Catholic devotional printing has not received attention from historians.