Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction to This Volume / Kevin Ingram and Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano -- 1 A Forgotten Campaign against the Conversos of Sigüenza: Pedro Cortés and the Inquisition of Cuenca / Sara T. Nalle -- 2 Iberians before the Venetian Inquisition / Gretchen Starr-LeBeau -- 3 The Psalms of David by Daniel Israel López Laguna, a Wandering Marrano / Ruth Fine -- 4 Anti-Rabbinic Texts and Converso Identities: Fernão Ximenes de Aragão’s Catholic Doctrine / Claude B. Stuczynski -- 5 Injurious Lexicons: Inquisitorial Testimonies regarding New Christians in Macau, Manila and Nagasaki in the Late Sixteenth Century / Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço -- 6 Converso Complicities in an Atlantic Monarchy: Political and Social Conflicts behind Inquisitorial Persecutions / Ignacio Pulido Serrano -- 7 Philip ii as the New Solomon: The Covert Promotion of Religious Tolerance and Synergism in Post-Tridentine Spain / Kevin Ingram -- 8 The Granada Lead Books Translator Miguel de Luna as a Model for Both the Toledan Morisco Translator and the Arab Historian Cidi Hamete Benengeli in Cervantes’ Don Quixote / Gerard Wiegers -- 9 An Attempted Morisco Settlement in Early Seventeenth-Century Tuscany / Asher Salah -- 10 From Mooresses to Odalisques: Representations of the Mooress in the Discourse of the Expulsion Apologists / Mercedes Alcalá-Galán -- 11 “This Thing Alone Will Preserve Their Nation Forever.” Circumcision and Conversion in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities / Yosef Kaplan -- Index.

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Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late Medieval Spain. The Converso and Morisco Studies publications will examine the implications of these mass conversions for the converts themselves, for their heirs (also referred to as Conversos and Moriscos) and for Medieval and Modern Spanish culture. As the essays in this collection attest, the study of the Converso and Morisco phenomena is not only important for those scholars focused on Spanish society and culture, but for academics everywhere interested in the issues of identity, Otherness, nationalism, religious intolerance and the challenges of modernity. Contributors include Mercedes Alcalá-Galan, Ruth Fine, Kevin Ingram, Yosef Kaplan, Sara T. Nalle, Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano, Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço, Ashar Salah, Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, Claude Stuczynski, and Gerard Wiegers.