Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics and Interaction: Early Modern Iberia and Beyond (CORPI)

CORPI is concerned with questions of religious change and specifically of the change brought about by forced mass conversion in late medieval/early modern Iberia. It departs from two convictions:
 Firstly, that new Converts constituted complex groups, in dialogue both among themselves and with Old Christians, and were open to the transmission and translation of ideas, images, and religious emotions.
 Secondly, that the desire to eradicate difference within the majority society was always combined with the fear of infiltration and contamination, and that the disappearance of differences exacerbated the search for allegedly essential characteristics in those with Jewish and Muslim ancestors, who were generally seen by Christians as crypto-Jews or crypto-Muslims.    

It is an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council
PI: Mercedes García-Arenal (ILC-CSIC)
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n° 323316.