{"product_id":"truth-in-many-tongues-daniel-i-wasserman-soler-9780271085999","title":"Truth in Many Tongues: Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eTruth in Many Tongues \u003c\/i\u003eexamines 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased upon original sources from more than thirty libraries and archives in Spain, Italy, the United States, England, and Mexico, \u003ci\u003eTruth in Many Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e will fascinate students and scholars who specialize in early modern Spain, colonial Latin America, Christian-Muslim relations, and early modern Catholicism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271085991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271085999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013712228607,"sku":"9780271085999","price":84.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6eae3033-2976-4011-b5a1-36b5c6c4ea42.jpg?v=1767744297","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/truth-in-many-tongues-daniel-i-wasserman-soler-9780271085999","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}