Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Hispanic Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
64,1 (1996) 19-29
Keywords:
Castro, Américo,
;
Antisemitism History 1500-1800
Abstract:
Many scholars have maintained that the cult of "pure blood" is to be associated with the Inquisition, and that through it racism became a part of Spanish life and a source of Spanish weakness. Objects to this opinion, contending that the "limpieza de sangre" statutes were in no way universal in late medieval-early modern Spain, and they were generally not supported by the monarchy or by the Church. Many prominent intellectuals spoke against the "limpieza de sangre, " and even some figures in the Inquisition were against it. In the 17th century, the "limpieza" statutes were not unsurmountable obstacles in the way of the Conversos. Although early modern Spain was, without any doubt, an antisemitic country, its antisemitism was no more harsh than in other countries with a substantial Jewish population; and heretics were persecuted in the rest of Europe more brutally than in Spain.
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