- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press (3 Jun 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300125801
- ISBN-13: 978-0300125801
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,849,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Impressively wide-ranging. . . . "All Can Be Saved "is pathbreaking for its methodology as well as its argument. . . .Schwartz sets a brilliant precedent here for pushing aside the tired boundaries of Iberian historiography to uncover surprising, deeply rooted, and shared societal attitudes of the early modern world."--Karin Velez, "Journal of World History"--Karin Velez "Journal of World History "
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It would seem unlikely that one could discover tolerant religious attitudes in Spain, Portugal, and the New World colonies during the era of the Inquisition, when enforcement of Catholic orthodoxy was widespread and brutal. Yet this groundbreaking book does exactly that. Drawing on an enormous body of historical evidence, including records of the Inquisition itself, the historian Stuart Schwartz investigates the idea of religious tolerance and its evolution in the Hispanic world from 1500 to 1820. Focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of common people rather than those of intellectual elites, the author finds that no small segment of the population believed in freedom of conscience and rejected the exclusive validity of the Church. The book explores various sources of tolerant attitudes, the challenges that the New World presented to religious orthodoxy, the complex relations between 'popular' and 'learned' culture, and many related topics. The volume concludes with a discussion of the relativist ideas that were taking hold elsewhere in Europe during this era.
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Moors, jews an christians in medieval Spain, Portugal and the Americas
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This is an incredible book.Everything that we were not taught in high school you'll find in this book. The author has done a superb research job. The narrative intelligently combines actual historical cases with sensible commentaries.It's a "page turner".
Anybody interested in this topic should buy this book.
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