Medievalists.net » Converso http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 ‘Forget Your People and Your Father’s House’: Teresa de Cartagena and the Converso Identity http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/forget-people-fathers-house-teresa-de-cartagena-converso-identity/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/forget-people-fathers-house-teresa-de-cartagena-converso-identity/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:32:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54586 Religion is a very important factor to take into consideration in discussions about the identity of the conversos [converts] or New Christians, an emerging group in 15th-century Castile.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/forget-people-fathers-house-teresa-de-cartagena-converso-identity/feed/ 0 Crisis and Regeneration: the Conversos of Majorca, 1391-1416 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/10/crisis-and-regeneration-the-conversos-of-majorca-1391-1416/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/10/crisis-and-regeneration-the-conversos-of-majorca-1391-1416/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:11:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41580 This dissertation investigates the economic, social and political factors that promoted Jewish identification among the first two generations of conversos in Majorca following their baptism in 1391.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/10/crisis-and-regeneration-the-conversos-of-majorca-1391-1416/feed/ 0 Converso Identities in Late Medieval Spain: Intermediacy and Indeterminacy http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/21/converso-identities-in-late-medieval-spain-intermediacy-and-indeterminacy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/21/converso-identities-in-late-medieval-spain-intermediacy-and-indeterminacy/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 17:05:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41246 In late medieval Spain, Christian leaders and missionaries developed conversion campaigns to bring Jews into Christianity. Some converts appear to have fully assimilated with their new religion. Those who did not effectively assimilate are known as conversos, members of a group whose beliefs and actions grew increasingly suspect. Historians disagree about conversos. Did conversos want to become Christian despite continued Jewish practices, or were they 'secret Jews' who knowingly engaged in the practice of their former religion?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/21/converso-identities-in-late-medieval-spain-intermediacy-and-indeterminacy/feed/ 0 The Secret Society: Descendants of Crypto-Jews in the San Antonio Area http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/03/the-secret-society-descendants-of-crypto-jews-in-the-san-antonio-area/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/03/the-secret-society-descendants-of-crypto-jews-in-the-san-antonio-area/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2012 05:41:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35360 The history of the converso Jews began in medieval Catholic Spain, which was constantly wracked with anti-Semitism that, many times, led to mass conversions or massacres of the Jewish population.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/03/the-secret-society-descendants-of-crypto-jews-in-the-san-antonio-area/feed/ 0 Social alienation and political subversion: Anti-Judaism in medieval Spanish music http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/17/social-alienation-and-political-subversion-anti-judaism-in-medieval-spanish-music/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/17/social-alienation-and-political-subversion-anti-judaism-in-medieval-spanish-music/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:33:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31060 In this thesis, the prevalence of anti-Judaism in the music of Christian Spain from the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth century is explored.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/17/social-alienation-and-political-subversion-anti-judaism-in-medieval-spanish-music/feed/ 0 Conversion, Sex, and Segregation: Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/29/conversion-sex-and-segregation-jews-and-christians-in-medieval-spain/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/29/conversion-sex-and-segregation-jews-and-christians-in-medieval-spain/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:22:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29723 From the late eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth, significant populations of Jews and Muslims lived under Christian domination in the lands we now call Spain. Their coexistence was not easy, for each of the three religious communities felt at risk, both physically and spiritually, from the others

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/29/conversion-sex-and-segregation-jews-and-christians-in-medieval-spain/feed/ 0 On the Language of Conversion: Visigothic Spain Revisited http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/09/on-the-language-of-conversion-visigothic-spain-revisited/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/09/on-the-language-of-conversion-visigothic-spain-revisited/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:34:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28444 In fifth-century Spain, the Visigoth conquerors – Christians and Arians – had to live with the native Hispani, who were Roman by culture and law and Catholic by faith.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/09/on-the-language-of-conversion-visigothic-spain-revisited/feed/ 0 Conversion Anxieties in the Crown of Aragón in the Later Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/01/conversion-anxieties-in-the-crown-of-aragon-in-the-later-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/01/conversion-anxieties-in-the-crown-of-aragon-in-the-later-middle-ages/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:33:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23679 Conversion Anxieties in the Crown of Aragón in the Later Middle Ages RODRIGUEZ, JARBEL Al-Masa ̄q, Vol. 22, No. 3, December (2010) Abstract The conversion of Christians to Islam caused significant anxiety in the Crown of Arago ́n in the later middle ages. Some of this fear was caused by genuine concern over the eternal salvation […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/01/conversion-anxieties-in-the-crown-of-aragon-in-the-later-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Christian kings and Jewish conversion in the medieval Crown of Aragon http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/01/christian-kings-and-jewish-conversion-in-the-medieval-crown-of-aragon/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/01/christian-kings-and-jewish-conversion-in-the-medieval-crown-of-aragon/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:09:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23617 As Christian monarchs in the age of crusade and reconquista, the kings of the medieval Crown of Aragon had no choice but to show public support for Jewish conversion to Christianity, issuing legislation meant to encourage conversion and granting favors to individual converts

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/01/christian-kings-and-jewish-conversion-in-the-medieval-crown-of-aragon/feed/ 0 Legal Status of Jewish Converts to Christianity in Southern Italy and Provence http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/12/legal-status-of-jewish-converts-to-christianity-in-southern-italy-and-provence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/12/legal-status-of-jewish-converts-to-christianity-in-southern-italy-and-provence/#comments Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:10:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=21767 Legal Status of Jewish Converts to Christianity in Southern Italy and Provence By Nadia Zeldes California Italian Studies Journal, Vol.1:1 (2010) Abstract: The presence of large numbers of unassimilated Jewish converts to Christianity in southern Italy and southern France in the later Middle Ages led to the creation of a legal anomaly as the neofiti […]

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