Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian Crypto Jews
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (2010) 132-150
Keywords:
Pérez, Manuel Bautista
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Crypto-Jews
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Crypto-Jews
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Inquisition
Abstract:
In 1635-39, in Lima, 63 people were arrested by the Spanish Inquisition and charged with heresy and Judaizing; the majority of them were merchants, and 57 of them were Portuguese. The "Complicidad Grande", as this affair was called in the Inquisition's correspondence, coincided with Spain's economic difficulties and had an additional motive: to attack the mercantile prosperity of Conversos, particularly those of Portuguese origin. Focuses on the case against Manuel Bautista Pérez, the most well-known member of the Converso community in Peru. Despite the fact that witnesses brought evidence against him, Pérez steadfastly resisted Inquisitorial efforts to label him a heretic and coerce him to repent; he refused to confess his heresy even on the scaffold. Notes that the Inquisition, led by mercantile considerations, anti-Converso sentiments, and ethnic hatred, eliminated the very individuals who could have strengthened Spain's colonial empire.
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