Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Family History
Angaben zur Quelle:
32,3 (2007) 215-233
Keywords:
Crypto-Jews
;
Names, Personal Jewish
;
Names, Personal Jewish
;
Inquisition History
;
Chiloé Island (Chile)
Abstract:
Almost two centuries after the final demise of the Spanish Inquisition, its effects may still be present. Fear of the Inquisition may have affected endogamy patterns and other cultural attitudes of Catholic families in Chiloe Island in southern Chile. More generally, the same fear may have eventually influenced the development of Chilean national culture. The article looks at several groups of people with Spanish surnames, from different historical periods. In particular, it explores colonial family trees, partly formed by Chiloe encomenderos and Catholic namesakes of Inquisition victims. Incidences of possibly Jewish Spanish surnames, and the different “crimes” investigated by the Inquisition tribunal in Lima, Peru are examined. A new, short list of those most exposed to harassment and intimidation by the Inquisition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is put together. In its light, the article discusses the evolution of family trees, generation after generation.
DOI:
10.1177/0363199007300092
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