2002
DOI: 10.1093/past/174.1.3
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Mass Conversion and Genealogical Mentalities: Jews and Christians in Fifteenth-Century Spain

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“…In post-expulsion Spain, conversos came to absorb Christian anti-Jewish rhetoric. 92 In England, where only a few hundred Jews remained after the expulsion in 1290, the idea of Jewish conversion mirrored Englishmen's anxieties about their own religious identity. 93 Yet in Rome, the native Jewish community filled that metaphoric role.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In post-expulsion Spain, conversos came to absorb Christian anti-Jewish rhetoric. 92 In England, where only a few hundred Jews remained after the expulsion in 1290, the idea of Jewish conversion mirrored Englishmen's anxieties about their own religious identity. 93 Yet in Rome, the native Jewish community filled that metaphoric role.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One of the main components of the converso attachment to past (and pre sent) Jewish ethnicity is allegiance to family and casta, which makes central the genealogical mentality. 86 It is what the poet Antón de Montoro calls "la jura de mis abuelos" (my ancestors' honor), the pride allegedly alluded to by Alonso de Cartagena: "Do not think you are persecuting me by calling my ancestors Jewish. They were, indeed, and I like it.…”
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“…Les plus connus sont ceux de l'Espagne wisigothique, de la Rhénanie pendant la première croisade, puis à nouveau en l'Espagne pendant les pogroms de 1391. Ces derniers ont eu comme résultat le bouleversement des certitudes par rapport aux identités chrétiennes ou juives, en provoquant une acmé de l'anxiété et une sorte de « crise d'identité » 39 . Une population suspecte est alors née, une population qui comprend des juifs convertis qui retournent au judaïsme ou qui l'exercent en secret, une population de relaps réels mais aussi imaginaires avec leurs complices.…”
Section: Une Histoire Médiévaleunclassified