Souls in Dispute
Subtitle: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700 (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780812237498
Subjects: Immigration & emigration; Jewish studies; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; History: World; Europe - General; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Spain; Europe; Jews; Comparative Religion; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Religion / Judaism / History; 17th century; 18th century; History; Marranos
First sentence: On August 18,1661, Cristobal Mendez Silveira, a thirty-eight-year-old merchant, deposed in Madrid before three officers of the Spanish Inquisition.