The role of Alfonso de Valladolid's writings for the correction of blasphemy and conversion of Jews (late 13th century and early 14th)

• Grant number: 20/13331-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2021
• End date: December 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Leandro Alves Teodoro
• Grantee: Leticia Daniele Diniz Vitor
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/11111-9 - The teaching of the Christian faith in the Iberian Peninsula (14th, 15th and 16 centuries), AP.JP

Abstract

In the transition from the 13th to the 14th century, in a period of effervescence of a more regular pastoral policy in the dioceses of the Crown of Castile, different catechetical productions appeared in order to admonish not only clergy, but also lay people from Christian families or recently converted to Christianity. In this context, the converted Jew Alfonso de Valladolid produced a set of pastoral pamphlets in which he spoke, among other sins, about that of blasphemy. With an emphasis on the works of this author, this study will examine to what extent the condemnation of this sin of the tongue contributed to the naturalization of a model of behavior followed by converts. In addition, this Scientific Initiation research will seek to analyze how the sins of the language were related by the author to the verbal expressions of the Devil himself on earth.