THE ISLAMISATION OF THE IMAGE OF JUDEOCONVERTS IN THE MEDIEVAL PAMPHLET ALBORAYQUE
THE ISLAMISATION OF THE IMAGE OF JUDEOCONVERTS IN THE MEDIEVAL PAMPHLET ALBORAYQUE

Summary/Abstract: In the Middle Age, the Christianity fight with Islam and Judaism, that knows it’s pick during The Crusades, but also through the polemical treaties and the public debates, entailes the construction of the imagery about the Other. But what happens when the Other is assigned with the imagery of a Stranger, more dangerous and more challenging even than the subject that is intended to be stigmatized? We shall analise, in the following, the process of such a transfer of the imagery from the dangerous Muslim Stranger to the Judeoconvert, as it occurs in the Spanish medieval pamphlet, Alborayque. The legitimate question that rises is why, in his attempt to stigmatized the Judeoconverts, the author prefers to use the imagery of the Muslim and not the one of the Jew, although the defame subjects are nothing but Jews converted to Christianity.

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