Religion & Society in Golden Age Spain

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Examines Spanish religious history from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Among other topics, readings and discussions will focus on: the collapse of religious pluralism and the end of convivencia (the coexistence of Christians, Jews, and Muslims); the Spanish Inquisition (its purposes, process, personnel, and consequences); varieties of religious practice in early modern Spain; and the characteristics of Spanish Catholicism in the Counter-Reformation.