Title: A network of converso families in early modern Toledo : assimilating a minority /
Authors: Martz, Linda
Publisher: University of Michigan Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Jews Spain Toledo History; Jews Spain Toledo History; Crypto-Jews Iberian Peninsula Spain Toledo History; Crypto-Jews Iberian Peninsula Spain Toledo History; Crypto-Jews Iberian Peninsula Spain Toledo Social life and customs.; Crypto-Jews Iberian Peninsula Spain Toledo Politics and government.; Crypto-Jews Iberian Peninsula Spain Toledo Economic conditions.; Toledo (Spain) Ethnic relations.
Abstract: A Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo addresses the fortunes of Jewish families who converted to Catholicism in fifteenth-century Spain. From the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, their careers, successes, and misfortunes are traced as they confront institutional and societal prejudices in the form of the Spanish Inquisition and pure blood statutes.
Contents: 1. The Fifteenth century and beyond -- 2. Rebuilding a family in an era of uncertainty -- 3. Setbacks and achievements of the post-inquisition Converso community 4. The Santo Domingo---Herrera family : making a name -- 5. Building a family in a period of prosperity -- 6. Wealth and its uses - 7. Toward a higher social status -- 8. The end of the line: the remaining heirs of Juan de Herrera Sr. -- 9. The somber seventeenth century : extinction or survival?