Language:
French
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Annales - Histoire, Sciences Sociales
Angaben zur Quelle:
62,4 (2007) 755-790
Keywords:
Antisemitism History To 1500
;
Crypto-Jews
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Argues that the massacres and mass conversions in Spain in 1391, which were meant to bring apocalyptic perfection, destabilized Christian identity. The emergence of large numbers of Conversos in Spanish society reduced the distance between Jews and Christians, and blurred the distinctions on which Christian priviliges rested. The fifty years following 1391 were marked by frictions caused by this new proximity. The frequent accusations of "Jewishness" and "Judaizing", in culture as well as in politics, had more to do with Christian thought than with actual efforts on the part of Conversos. "Jewishness" was an essential Christian metaphor, a key insult used against other Christians, and the term "Judaizing" described the danger of falling from the spiritual to the literal. Insists on a hermeneutic explanation for the attacks on the Conversos and for the first "limpieza de sangre" statute enacted in Toledo in 1449. Concludes that hermeneutics and genealogy fed each other, increasing fear of the Jews. This led to the creation of the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, and the production of one million copies of genealogical proofs of purity of blood.
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