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2022
The 15th century saw the last wave of mass conversions to the Christian faith on the Iberian Peninsula. The formerly large Jewish population there was coerced, sometimes with open violence, to accept baptism. However, significant parts of the Christian majority never accepted the converts as equals and doubted their professed faith. This discrimination
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The 15th century saw the last wave of mass conversions to the Christian faith on the Iberian Peninsula. The formerly large Jewish population there was coerced, sometimes with open violence, to accept baptism. However, significant parts of the Christian majority never accepted the converts as equals and doubted their professed faith. This discrimination
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2020
This is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with English introduction, translation, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity.
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This is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with English introduction, translation, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity.
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2020
This is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with modern Spanish introduction, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an introduction providing
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This is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with modern Spanish introduction, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an introduction providing
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The Hispanic-Converso Predicament
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1985The hispanic-converso predicament developed over a considerable period of time and was the consequence of intolerance. It affected both Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity, frequently under extreme pressure. The former are generally known as conversos and the latter as moriscos.
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2018
In this final chapter Ingram focuses on the converos’ place within Spanish historiography, which changes dramatically when, in 1948, Americo Castro publishes Espana en su historia, arguing for a sixteenth-century intellectual environment dominated by New Christians. This leads to an increasingly tense debate, played out against the backdrop of Franco’s
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In this final chapter Ingram focuses on the converos’ place within Spanish historiography, which changes dramatically when, in 1948, Americo Castro publishes Espana en su historia, arguing for a sixteenth-century intellectual environment dominated by New Christians. This leads to an increasingly tense debate, played out against the backdrop of Franco’s
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Patterns in Converso Messianism
2001Some rather astonishing statements about the apostasy of the pseudo-messiah Sabbatai Zevi in 1666 were made by one his chief theologians, Abraham Miguel Cardoso. Cardoso was a former converso, a descendent of Jews who had converted to Catholicism under duress in Spain or Portugal during the fifteenth century.
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MLN, 1987
Quevedo's Buscon is generally regarded as being the greatest Spanish picaresque novel, but critics are deeply divided about what makes it great. Oversimplifying somewhat, we have on the one hand those (including practically all British Hispanists) who see the work as a coherent psychological study embodying profound moral meaning; on the other, those ...
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Quevedo's Buscon is generally regarded as being the greatest Spanish picaresque novel, but critics are deeply divided about what makes it great. Oversimplifying somewhat, we have on the one hand those (including practically all British Hispanists) who see the work as a coherent psychological study embodying profound moral meaning; on the other, those ...
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