Language:
Portuguese
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas
Angaben zur Quelle:
21 (2019) 71-91
Keywords:
Inquisition History
;
Crypto-Jews History
;
Sephardim History
;
Social networks History
Abstract:
New Christian Felix Nunes de Miranda experienced the bitter situation of being arrested and tried by the Inquisitions of Llerena and Lisbon. A controversial and chameleonic figure, on the one hand accused of Judaism and on the other defended by priests and ecclesiastical representatives, this man, despite having a trajectory similar to many other neoconversos, becomes unique when we come into contact with his documentation. Felix was a merchant whose business activities branched out into various spaces with a Portuguese and Sephardic presence in the Early Modern world, and who had links with important commercial and contact networks. The action of the Inquisition completely changed his and his family’s lives. He was prosecuted twice and considered to have relapsed into Judaism; he would eventually be condemned to death, an example of the rigors and intolerances of the Holy Office. This paper aims to analyze the trajectory of Félix Nunes de Miranda and understand the reasons that led him to be doubly prosecuted by the Holy Office, as well as the social networks that he maintained and allowed him to resist, as far as possible, the rigors of the Inquisition.
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