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Bad Blood: Impurity and Danger in the Early Modern Spanish Mentality

The current work is an intellectual history of how blood permeated early modern Spaniards' conceptions of morality and purity. This paper examines Spanish intellectuals' references to blood in their medical, theological, demonological, and historical works. Through these excerpts, this thesis demonstrates how this language of blood played a role in buttressing the church's conception of good morals. This, in turn, will show that blood was used as a way to persecute Jews and Muslims, and ultimately define the early modern Spanish identity.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc30504
Date08 1900
CreatorsPyle, Rhonda
ContributorsGolden, Richard M., Beckman, Pierina, Morris, Marilyn
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 82 p., Text
RightsPublic, Copyright, Pyle, Rhonda, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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