Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
Bulletin Hispanique
Angaben zur Quelle:
88,3-4 (1986) 321-356
Keywords:
Crypto-Jews
;
Inquisition
;
Jews History 1500-1800
Abstract:
States that in early modern Spain not all Conversos were discriminated against and not all Spaniards accepted the racial laws. Meant to exclude all New Christians, the "limpieza de sangre" statutes were in fact directed against Conversos who enjoyed wealth and social status. Tensions between Conversos and Old Christians were exploited by an elite wishing to protect its monopoly of power and influence. Emphasizes that there never were state racial laws but only private organizations' regulations, which did not bar Conversos from professions but stripped them of any social status or honor. "Purity of blood" statutes were adopted by universities, religious and military orders, municipalities, and guilds, and were endorsed by Spanish kings. Many Spanish theologians and jurists denounced this discrimination, especially between 1580-1640, when Fray Augustin Salucio's "Discurso sobre los estatutos de limpieza" (1599) was supported by the Inquisitor General and later by the Cortes. The Inquisition's opposition to the racial laws (ca. 1626) was not due to liberalism but was a reaction to the perjury, corruption, and falsifications that discrimination aroused.
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