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‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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The Orphans of Bishop Richard Fletcher: New Archival Discoveries on the Siblings of Playwright John Fletcher

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents new archival discoveries concerning the siblings of early modern playwright John Fletcher following the sudden death of their father, Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, in 1596. Navigating the epistemological limits of adversarial legal records from Chancery and the Star Chamber, the study reveals the tumultuous ...
Domenico Lovascio
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Framing Peninsular Crypto‐Jews as Part of the Sephardic Diaspora

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When we talk about the Sephardic diaspora, we often talk about Iberian conversos who leave the Peninsula, supposedly to live openly as Jews in places like Algiers, Venice, Amsterdam or the Ottoman Empire. But what about those conversos who continued to identify in some way as Jews but who remained in Spain and Portugal?
David A. Wacks
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A Sephardic Quevedo? Abraham Gómez Silveira, Between Controversy and Poetry

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A book published in 2000, El barroco sefardí Abraham Gómez Silveira (The Sephardic Baroque Abraham Gómez Silveira), introduced us to this hitherto unknown author, baptised in Castile in 1651, who was educated at the school of the sacred congregation of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
Mercedes Blanco
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The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
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Performative Anchoring Practices and the Making of Belonging in Diaspora

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Greekness is constructed and negotiated by a member of the Greek second generation in Italy, a population largely absent from contemporary diaspora scholarship. Through a biographical and socio‐anthropological approach grounded in long‐term ethnographic fieldwork, the study shows how belonging emerges not as inherited
Andrea Pelliccia
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Precarious agency: The role of uptake

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
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Facilitating Feeling?: The Relationship between Memorials and Emotions

Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
This article explores if and how national memorials impact collective emotions among local residents, focusing on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) in Montgomery, Alabama. This understudied question is of sociological importance given the change in federal policy regarding public memorials, particularly the removal of references to ...
Ashley V. Reichelmann, James E. Hawdon
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