Writing Religious, Transcultural, Gendered Identities and Alterities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
(1270 – 1436). Jewish converso and Franciscan friar. He wrote a Mostrador de Justiçia, Libro de la Ley (Book of the Law), Libro de las batallas de Dios (Books of the battles of God), Libro del zelo de Dios, Respuestas al blasfemo, Libro de las tres creencias (Book of three beliefs) y los Sermones contra…
Presbyter in the diocese of Burgos who “ad inducendum iudeos ad fidem catholicam insudabat eisque verbum Dei predicabat indefesse” (untiringly preached the Word of God for the conversion of the Jews to Christiany)[nota]Martínez, Los judíos…, p. 87, n. 37.[/nota]. The Jews of Sahagún complained to the king about the belligerance of Juan while during his…
This Franciscan friar is wellknown by the claiming, during a sermon that he had gathered 100 foreskins from converted Jews, so trying to prove they were trying to act as Jews. The falsehood was unveiled, but it is anyway an example of the tone that al some preachers could reach when preaching.
This dominican friar appears in 1485 preaching against the Jews in Segovia. Bibliography: Luis Suárez Fernández, Documentos acerca de la expulsión de los judíos, Valladolid, 1964, doc. 83, p. 251.
Dominican friar. He preached to the Jews in Zamora in 1484 and 1485, and again in 1491 in a much more agressive way, causing riots and the complaints of the Jews. Bibliografía: LADERO QUESADA, Miguel Ángel, «Apuntes para la historia de los judíos y los conversos de Zamora en la Edad Media (siglos XIII-XV) », Sefarad…
(? – 1491) A friar minor who settled in Salamanca. His main work, the Fortalitium fidei, is a summary of arguments attacking the Jews, Muslims and heretics, whose purpouse was to be a tool for preachers. The third book is devoted to the Jews, and the Fourth book to the Muslims. Beyond the Fortalitium, he…
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Although he is known as a instigator of the anti-jewish riots in Sevilla in 1391, that later spread to the rest of Castilia and Aragon, he was preaching in Sevilla since 1376, and actually was sent to trial in 1383 and forbidden to preach in 1389[note]De los Ríos, II, 579-589, 592-594.[/note]. Nevertheless, he continued with…
Although none of his sermons is extant, Pedro de Ollogoyen is traditionally considered the forwarder of the slaughter to the Jews of Navarra in 1328. (Menéndez Pelayo). Goñi questions the violence and aggresiveness of his sermons. About the attacks in 1321, he suggests that “no one disturbed the Jews”, although he himself explains that a…
Benecictine monk, Bishop of Vic, abbot of the monasteries of St. Mary in Ripoll and St. Michael in Cuixà (nowadays France), founder of the monastery St. Mary in Montserrat. An outsdaning character in XI century Catalonia. Some of his sermons are extant: Sermon for the festivity of St. Narcissus Sermon for the festivity of St….
Manuscript digitized at Memòria Digital de Catalunya. Description: Manuscript containing the catalan version (probably writen before the latin translation) of a serie of sermons writen in Majorca in 1313 by Ramon Llull. Editions: Llibre de virtuts e de pecats. Fernando Domínguez (ed.) “Nova Edició de les Obres de Ramon Llull” I (Palma de Mallorca: Patronat…