15. Kingdoms of Conquest: Iberia in the Middle Ages
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- 15. Kingdoms of Conquest: Iberia in the Middle Ages
- 'Convivencia'
- Contested idea of medieval Iberia - where presence of Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together as a tolerant society.
- Cultural exchange between members of different religions.
- Minorities officially protected but oppressed and marginalised.
- Comparable to South African apartheid.
- Off-limit boundaries between three religions.
- Interfaith sex.
- Conversions.
- More of an ideal than historical reality.
- Jonathan Ray has exposed how wrong convivencia is.
- Persecutions against Jewish populations under Muslim Almoravid and Almohad dynasties of 11th and 12th c.
- Widespread Christian pogroms and forced conversions of Jews in 1391.
- Cycle of forced conversions, expulsions and inquisitorial harassment of Jewish and Muslim communities through late medieval and early modern period.
- From Spanish 'convivir': lit. 'living with the other'.
- Spanish Inquisition
- The tool of authorities to convict offenders.
- 'Edicts of faith and grace' allowed 90 days for people to come forward and confess they had erred against the Catholic faith.
- Heavy use of informants.
- Often servants who had an intimate knowledge of their masters' daily religious practices.
- Use of torture to extract confessions.
- Punishments included:
- Death by burning or strangulation.
- Varying degrees of imprisonment
- Scourging
- Varying forms of public humiliation
- Confiscation of property.
- Exerting royal control through militant Catholicism.
- Reconquista as a political tool
- Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, used image of being on his own Reconquista.
- 'Convivencia'
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