Conversos, Inquisition, and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain
The Jewish community in Spain was the largest and most important in the West for almost a thousand years, participating fully in cultural and political affairs with Christian and Muslim neighbors. Norman Roth traces the chain of events that led to mass conversions of Spanish Jews to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the rise of animosity against them, the establishment of the Inquisition, and finally, the 1492 Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Citing evidence from his extensive research of medieval documents, he firmly refutes the traditionally accepted story of "crypto-Judaism," which contends that the conversos were forced publicly to abandon their faith, while continuing secretly to maintain their Jewish traditions. Roth argues persuasively that the conversos were, in fact, sincere Christians
eBook, English, ©1995
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, ©1995
History
1 online resource (xvi, 429 pages)
9780299142339, 9781282268883, 9786612268885, 0299142337, 1282268880, 6612268883
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1. Marranos and Conversos
2. Early Phase of Conversions: Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
3. Conversos and Crisis: The Fifteenth Century
4. Conversos and Political Upheaval
5. Conversos in Service of Church and State
6. Converso Authors, Chroniclers, and Polemicists
7. The Inquisition
8. Expulsions of the Jews
Appendix A. Critical Survey of the Literature
Appendix B. Jewish and Converso Population in Fifteenth-Century Spain
Appendix C. Major Converso Families
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