Language:
Portuguese
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Problemas Brasileiros
Angaben zur Quelle:
289 (1992) 1-10
Keywords:
Inquisition History
;
Crypto-Jews History
Abstract:
A paper presented at the reunion of the Trade Federation, December 1991. Discusses the influence of the Inquisition on the mentality of colonial Brazil, holding it responsible for the slow development of the country. States that the Portuguese, as well as the Spanish, Inquisition was a political rather than a religious instrument, serving the absolutist monarchy through terror and control of the population. Its motives were mostly economic and it was directed mainly against Conversos who constituted most of the middle class in colonial Brazil. Many Conversos were discriminated against by the "limpieza de sangre" statutes, and many were accused of Judaizing and sent to Portugal for trial, thus weakening the middle class, which was never allowed to develop. Followed by a discussion (pp. 11-39).
Note:
Pp. 11-39: Debate.
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