Linajudos and conversos in Seville: greed and prejudice in sixtenth- and seventeenth-century Spain
This book, based on new research in the Spanish archives, is the first full-length account of the activities of the 'linajudos', genealogists whose occupation was to scrutinize ancestries and to extort money from candidates for offices and honors who, in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York Bern Frankfurt am Main Berlin Vienna [u.a.]
Lang
2000
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| In: |
American university studies / 9 (195)
Year: 2000 |
| Series/Journal: | American university studies / 9
195 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Marranos
/ Antisemitism
/ Sevilla
/ History 1500-1700
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| Further subjects: | B
Jews Spain Seville History
B s.Jewish Christians / Seville / Spain B Jewish Christians Spain Seville B Seville (Spain) Ethnic relations B Antisemitism Spain Seville 17th century B s.Antisemitism / 17th century / Seville / Spain B g.Seville (Spain) / Ethnic relations B 16th century / s.Antisemitism / Seville / Spain B Antisemitism Spain Seville 16th century |
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| Summary: | This book, based on new research in the Spanish archives, is the first full-length account of the activities of the 'linajudos', genealogists whose occupation was to scrutinize ancestries and to extort money from candidates for offices and honors who, in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, had to prove that they were not of converso (that is, Jewish) descent. In Seville many of the patrician families that dominated the transatlantic trade and governed the city in this period had intermarried with the conversos or were themselves of similar origin. This book views the 'linajudo' phenomenon as part of the wider problem of the assimilation of the conversos into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish society. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index |
| ISBN: | 0820449644 |