La misión granadina de Maryam: la construcción de una imaginería mariana para los moriscos granadinos y la versión talaveriana de la Vita Christi de Francesc Eiximenis

Valdés Sánchez, Amanda

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/aem.2020.50.1.17

La misión granadina de Maryam: la construcción de una imaginería mariana para los moriscos granadinos y la versión talaveriana de la Vita Christi de Francesc Eiximenis

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Valdés Sánchez A. La misión granadina de Maryam: la construcción de una imaginería mariana para los moriscos granadinos y la versión talaveriana de la Vita Christi de Francesc Eiximenis. Anu Estud Mediev. 2020 Jun 30;50(1):473-503. DOI: 10.3989/aem.2020.50.1.17

Abstract

This paper presents a new interpretation of the cast sculptures of the Virgin commissioned from the sculptor Huberto Alemán by Queen Isabella the Catholic and Archbishop Hernando de Talavera for the parishes responsible for the religious instruction of recently converted Moriscos in early sixteenth-century Granada. I will explore how the “islamicate” vision of the Virgin of Eiximenis’ Vita Christi, previously translated and printed by Talavera as part of his missionary project, could have been used by the archbishop in order to disseminate an interpretation of these Marian images as a key element in the spiritual education of the Moriscos of the Albaicín quarter in Granada.

Alternative title

The Granadan mission of Maryam: the construction of a form of Marian imagery for the Moriscos of Granada and Hernando de Talavera’s version of the Vita Christi by Francesc Eiximenis