Writing Religious, Transcultural, Gendered Identities and Alterities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
A member of Vincent Ferrier’s retinue, he appeares preaching in Tarragona against the Jews in 1422. Because of the controversy of his sermons, queen Mary forbid Pere Cerdà to preach. Bibliography: Carreras Candi, Francesc, «L’aljama de juheus de Tortosa», in Boletín de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona (1928), p. 56-57.
Bibliography: Virgilio Buiza Díez (coord.), San Juan de Sahagún. Su capilla y su herencia universal. Sahagún (Leon), 2004. GARCÍA ABAD, Albano, “San Juan de Sahagún, pacificador y patrón de Salamanca” en El culto a los santos: cofradías, devoción, fiestas y arte, Ediciones Escurialenses, Real Centro Universitario Escorial-María Cristina p. 593-612
(1428-1507) His opinions defending education and catechesis to conversos made him suspect to the Inquisition, and, althought archbishop of Granada, was prosecuted at the end of his life. He wrote a Collación muy provechosa de cómo se deben renovar en las ánimas todos los fieles cristianos and a Tractado de los loores de San Juan…
(c. 1340 – after 1412) He preached in Valencia during the plague in 1374-75, before causing an scandal at the university in Paris by saying that the belief in the Inmaculate Conception of Mary was heretic. Some of his sermons were preserved at the Dominican convent in Valencia, but are no longer there. He translated…
(1295-1348) Counselor of king Peter III of Aragón, Bernat Oliver was a friar of the order of Saint Agustin, bishop of Huesca, Barcelona and Tortosa, as well as author of an Excitatori de la pensa a Déu (Excitatory of the thoughts to God), a Tractatus contra perfidiam iudeorum, and teacher of theology in Paris and…
(c. 1125 – 1203) Martín de León wrote a ConcordiaVeteris ac Novi Testamenti , a compilation of sermons where the author deals with a large number of topics, although research has often focused on the image of the Jews. Recent research (De las heras) is challenging this point of view. Editions: Patrologia Latina cursus completus…,…
(c. 1241 – 1318) Author, among many other works, of a Liber sermonum, a Breviloquium de vitiis et virtutibus as well as two collections of Sermones et collaciones dominicales and Sermones communes et ad nonnullas solemnitates. In some of his works appear texts that follow the rules of the Ars praedicandi and can be considered…
Bishop of Menorca in the 5th century, he wrote a Epistula de conversione Iudaeorum, where he explains the conversion of the Jewish community of Menorca in 418. Some historians considered the Epistola actually written by Consentius or by both Severus and Consentius. Anyway, the Epistola is an important document in the polemics between Judaism and…
One of the best known converso preachers, although his life as a preacher was not very long. In october 1360, the bishop of Girona explains to the clergy and the faithful that Nicolau is preaching to the Jews in the city [note]Escribà, Gemma, Frago, Maria Pilar, Documents dels jueus de Girona, 1124-1595. Ajuntament de Girona,…
A converso from judaism, Paul Christian (Cast: Pablo Cristiano; Cat: Pau Cristià) entered the Dominican order, where he met influential friars such as Ramon de Penyafort or Ramon Martí. He was elected as representative of the Christian side in the Disputation of Barcelona (1263), a debate against Moshe ben Nahman, Talmudist and rabbi of Girona….