CORPI project: Final Activity Report / Informe final de actividades

Abstract

This report summarizes the scientific production of the CORPI Project, “Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics and Interaction. Early Modern Iberia and Beyond.” Funded by FP7-IDEAS-ERC —European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme— ERC Advanced Grant 2013 (grant agreement n° 323316). Its Principal Investigator was Mercedes García-Arenal, and it was executed between 2013-04-01 and 2019-03-31

CORPI has been dedicated to studying early modern Iberia’s singular social and religious trajectory, focusing in particular on the far-reaching effects of the mass forced conversions of Jews and Muslims that had taken place since the end of the 14th century and culminated a century later with the forced conversion and expulsion of Jews (1492) and of Muslims (1502). During this crucial period, Iberia was transformed from the religiously plural society that it had been during the Middle Ages into a monoconfessional one.