A Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo: Assimilating a Minority

by Linda Martz

A Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo addresses the fortunes of Jewish families who converted to Catholicism in fifteenth-century Spain. From the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, their careers, successes, and misfortunes are traced as they confront institutional and societal prejudices in the form of the Spanish Inquisition and pure blood statutes. Linda M. Martz focuses on families that were immersed in the worlds of business...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472112694
• ISBN13: 9780472112692
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.5"