A network of converso families in early modern Toledo
Subtitle: assimilating a minority
By: Linda Martz.
Series: History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Jews -- Spain -- Toledo -- History -- 16th century; Jews -- Spain -- Toledo -- History -- 17th century; Marranos -- Spain -- Toledo -- History -- 16th century; Marranos -- Spain -- Toledo -- History -- 17th century; Marranos -- Spain -- Toledo -- Social life and customs; Marranos -- Spain -- Toledo -- Politics and government; Marranos -- Spain -- Toledo -- Economic conditions; Toledo (Spain) -- Ethnic relations
Description: "A Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo focuses on fifteenth-century Spanish families who converted to Catholicism from Judaism. From the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, Martz traces their careers, successes, and misfortunes as they confronted institutional and societal prejudices in the form of the Spanish Inquisition and pure-blood statutes."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-428) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Fifteenth century and beyond; title: 2. Rebuilding a family in an era of uncertainty; title: 3. Setbacks and achievements of the post-inquisition Converso community 4. The Santo Domingo; title: -Herrera family : making a name; title: 5. Building a family in a period of prosperity; title: 6. Wealth and its uses - 7. Toward a higher social status; title: 8. The end of the line: the remaining heirs of Juan de Herrera Sr.; title: 9. The somber seventeenth century : extinction or survival?