"Original title: Herkunft und Textkultur : über jüdische Erfahrungswelten in romanischen Literaturen 1499-1627."
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Skepticism and irony : La Celestina (1499) -- An aesthetics of love : Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore (1505-1535) -- Inquisition and conversion : El Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) -- Marranism and modernity : the meaning of form in Michel de Montaigne's Essais (1580-1588) -- Sacred text and poetic form : the poetry of João Pinto Delgado (1627) -- Conclusion : Marranic experience as a paradigm of the modern age
What role has Jewish intellectual culture played in the development of modern Romance literature? Susanne Zepp seeks to answer this question through an examination of five influential early modern texts written between 1499 and 1627: Fernando de Rojas's La Celestina, Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore, the anonymous tale Lazarillo de Tormes (the first picaresque novel), Montaigne's Essais, and the poetical renditions of the Bible by João Pinto Delgado. Forced to straddle two cultures and religions, these Iberian conversos (Jews who converted to Catholicism) prefigured the subjectivity which would
