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Truth in Many Tongues
2020
Overview
Truth in Many Tongues examines how the Spanish monarchy
managed an empire of unprecedented linguistic diversity.
Considering policies and strategies exerted within the Iberian
Peninsula and the New World during the sixteenth century, this book
challenges the assumption that the pervasiveness of the Spanish
language resulted from deliberate linguistic colonization.
Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler investigates the subtle and surprising
ways that Spanish monarchs and churchmen thought about language.
Drawing from inquisition reports and letters; royal and
ecclesiastical correspondence; records of church assemblies,
councils, and synods; and printed books in a variety of genres and
languages, he shows that Church and Crown officials had no single,
unified policy either for Castilian or for other languages. They
restricted Arabic in some contexts but not in others. They
advocated using Amerindian languages, though not in all cases. And
they thought about language in ways that modern categories cannot
explain: they were neither liberal nor conservative, neither
tolerant nor intolerant. In fact, Wasserman-Soler argues, they did
not think predominantly in terms of accommodation or assimilation,
categories that are common in contemporary scholarship on religious
missions. Rather, their actions reveal a highly practical
mentality, as they considered each context carefully before
deciding what would bring more souls into the Catholic Church.
Based upon original sources from more than thirty libraries and
archives in Spain, Italy, the United States, England, and Mexico,
Truth in Many Tongues will fascinate students and scholars
who specialize in early modern Spain, colonial Latin America,
Christian-Muslim relations, and early modern Catholicism.
Publisher
Penn State University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780271085999, 0271085991
