1492. La expulsión de los judíos y el descubrimiento de América en la Nueva crónica de Indias

Cortés, Carolina Pizarro

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“…There is significant scholarship on the community of Chuetas that explains why they were persecuted by the Inquisition in the seventeenth century. As Picazo y Muntaner argues, one group of scholars (Cortès Cortès 1985;Forteza 1972) demonstrates that the economic crisis between 1670 and 1680 badly affected the Holy Office, and targeting this merchant community would have resupplied its coffers. At the same time, ideologically, the Chuetas lived in a way that undermined the Inquisition's teachings (Selke, Braunstein).…”

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Maternal Practice and the Chuetas of Mallorca: The Inquisitorial Trials of Pedro Onofre Cortés

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2024

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In the inquisitorial archive of Pedro Onofre Cortés, alias Moixina, we see fellow practitioner protesting his son’s marriage to Clara Sureda because she was an Old Christian. The poor match was blamed on the breast milk that was ingested as an infant, “andaba con cristianos porque había mamado leche de una mujer cristiana” (he went with Christians because of the milk drunk milk from a Christian woman) (Picazo y Muntaner). In early modern Spain, breastmilk was seen as responsible for transmitting virtues and vices, religious expressions of faith and moral traits. Following Galenic medical understanding equating milk with blood, it was women who were responsible for the transmission of purity, impurity (Alexandre-Bidon 175), for contamination and difference (Martínez 47). This brief citation reflects the hybrid environment and the dual practices that deeply informed the lives of the converso Jews. Moreover, the understanding of the hereditary nature of these traits, and the traditions of Judaism and Christianity, so often mixed in unique combinations are clearly demonstrated in the Inquisition trials of Cortés and his Chueta brethren. As regulation over the mother and the female body became increasingly important in controlling Iberian subjects and its empire, conversos complicate the feminization of impurity. This article explores how the conversos known as the Chuetas of Mallorca understood their religiosity and difference as seen through the lens of hybridity, breast milk and maternal care.

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Section: A Brief History Of the Chuetasmentioning

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Maternal Practice and the Chuetas of Mallorca: The Inquisitorial Trials of Pedro Onofre Cortés

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1492. La expulsión de los judíos y el descubrimiento de América en la Nueva crónica de Indias

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Maternal Practice and the Chuetas of Mallorca: The Inquisitorial Trials of Pedro Onofre Cortés

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