Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Eurasian Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,2 (2003) 251-271
Keywords:
Crypto-Jews History 15th century
;
Crypto-Jews History 16th century
;
Spain Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
Mediterranean Region History 16th century
Abstract:
Despite the widespread belief that Jews and Conversos were leaving the Iberian peninsula in 1453 in order to help the Turks capture Constantinople, and that the Jews were conspiring with the Turks to topple the Christian world, no attempts were made by Spain after 1492 to prevent Jews from emigrating to Muslim countries. Not so with the Conversos: from the mid-15th-16th centuries, the prevention of Conversos from travelling eastward became part of Spanish foreign policy. The authorities were sure that the only reason Conversos were going to the Levant was to revert to Judaism. In Sicily, the Inquisition was especially brutal toward Converso fugitives from Spain who tried to pass through the island. Examines the diplomatic mission of Pietro Martire de Angheria to Egypt in 1501-1502. His mission reveals the vehement opposition to the flight of Conversos to Muslim countries that guided Spanish policy, as well as the fear of a possible alliance between Jews, Conversos, and Muslims that permeated the Spanish court.
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