The Converso and Morisco Studies series, published by Brill Academic Press, presents periodic anthologies of essays devoted to converso and morisco themes. Most of these essays will be selected from the bi-annual conference papers. However, other submissions will also be considered for publication.

Articles will be considered in both English and Spanish. Spanish articles selected for publication will be translated into English.

Volume I of the series will be published in 2008:

     - Converso and Morisco Studies, Vol. 1 - Contents

1. Introduction

2. Seeking the Messiah: Converso Messianism in Post-1453 Valencia
Mark D. Meyerson

3. “If There Were God”: The Problem of Unbelief in the Vision Deleytable
Luis M. Girón-Negrón

4. Converso Voices in 15th- and 16th-century Spanish Literature
Elaine Wertheimer

5. “Berenjeneros”; The Aubergine Eaters of Toledo
Juan Gil

6. Sicilian Converts after the Expulsion: Inter-Community Relations, Acceptance and Rejection, Acculturation and the Preservation of Group Identity
Nadia Zeldes

7. A Thorn in La Mancha: Popular Religious Practice and Converso Dissidence in Molina de Aragon
Leonor Zozaya

8. Inquisition and Crytpo-Judaism: The “Complicity” of the Mora Family of Quintanar de la Orden (1588-1592)
Vincent Parello

9. Between Rumour and Resistance: The Andalusian Morisco “Uprising” of 1580
Michel Boeglin

10. Jerónimo Román de la Higuera and the Lead Books of Sacramonte
Mercedes García-Arenal y Fernando Rodríguez Mediano

11. Manzanares 1600: Moriscos from Granada Head a “Moors and Christians” Fair.
William Childers

12. Maurophilia and the Morisco Subject
Barbara Fuchs

13. Sancho Panza and the Mimesis of Solomon: Medieval Jewish Traditions in Don Quijote
Francisco Peña Fernández

14. Historiography, Historicity and the Conversos
Kevin Ingram

SUBMISSIONS

The articles should be between 5,000 and 10,000 words approximately (excluding footnotes). Double space and use Times New Roman font. Footnote as follows:

Books
Author, Title, place of publication, pages.
Ex.: John Smith, The Conversos, Madrid, 2008, pp. 7-9.

Journal Articles
Author, “Title,” Journal, volume (year of publication) pages
Ex.: John Smith “The Conversos,” Alboraique, vol. I (2008), pp. 7-9.

Essays in an edited collection
Author, “Essay Title,” in Title of Collection, ed. editor’s name, Place of publication, year of publication) pages.
Ex.: John Smith, “The Conversos,” in Sixteenth-Century Spain, ed. Peter Jones, Madrid, pp. 7-9.

Send your submissions to conversos@madrid.slu.edu