Description du projet
Les femmes au centre de l’attention: les minorités crypto-religieuses musulmanes et juives dans l’Espagne médiévale
Au XVe siècle, les minorités musulmanes et juives de la couronne chrétienne d’Aragon ont développé une forme de comportement crypto-religieux afin de préserver leur foi ancestrale. L’importance du genre dans les documents historiques a souvent été négligée dans les interprétations conventionnelles. Le projet CONVERSAS, financé par le programme MSCA, vise à examiner les identités culturelles de ces minorités crypto-religieuses musulmanes et juives de l’époque. Le projet entend remettre en question les interprétations établies et à introduire des concepts comparatifs innovants axés sur les caractéristiques socioreligieuses des femmes de ces communautés qui se sont converties au christianisme. Ces personnes, appelées Moriscas (chrétiennes d’origine musulmane) et Judeo-Conversas (chrétiennes d’origine juive), étaient soupçonnées d’adhérer en privé aux pratiques religieuses de leurs ancêtres.
Objectif
The project CONVERSAS explores the cultural identities of Muslim and Jewish crypto-religious minorities within coerced mono-confessional pre-modern Crown of Aragon (c. 1400-1500). It will challenge traditional interpretations - based on male centred historical documents and largely ignored within gender blind research - by creating a novel concept of comparison, especially between socio-religious characteristics of these groups’ female members converted to Christianity: Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) and Judeo-Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) suspected of secret adherence to the religion of their ancestors. The project aims to develop an adaptable multi-dimensional comparative and intersectional model to provide cultural, historical and gender analysis of these religious groups. As a sample of multi-dimensional methodology applied to the underutilized archival data - most notably inquisitorial trial dossiers, Jewish and Muslim religious and legal texts, royal documents, local legislations, notarial, and cadastral documents - the applicant will write a research monograph, accompanied by a database of selected manuscripts integrated into the Host’s servers, and (co-)organize a workshop. The research will be conducted in a trans-disciplinary research group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona (Spain) under the supervision of Professor Linda Gale Jones, an international authority of comparative Muslim and Christian gender studies. The applicant will bring philological, historical, and anthropological skills that will facilitate research in the group and the transfer of ideas. Since democratic managing of increasing cultural diversity represents one of the crucial challenges that Europe is facing today the knowledge acquired from Islamic and Judaic intangible cultural heritage will prevent ethnic disintegration and promote understanding and reconciliation toward creating a plural, tolerant and broadminded cohesive society.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
08002 Barcelona
Espagne