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Titel

Constructing and Undermining Converso Jewishness: Profiat

Ist Teil von

• Religious Conversion, 2014, p.195-226

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

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• The sudden conversion of thousands of Jews to Christianity that took place in the Iberian Peninsula between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the final expulsion of the Jews at the turn of the fifteenth century caused the emergence of a new class – the conversos (also known as the New Christians or marranos). Ever since these events, the “true” religious identity of the conversos has been under scrutiny, first by their early modern contemporaries ( Jews and Christians), and later by historians who debated how Jewish and how Christian they really were. However, in recent years historians became more sensitive to the process in which converso identity was formulated, and the impact it had on the basic categories of identity – “the Jewish” and “the Christian.”2 Jews, Christians and converts who were living side by side were required to constantly articulate the meaning of being Jewish and determine to what extent this Jewishness and Christian identity were exclusive concepts. This 1 This article is partly based on a paper presented at the 85th annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Yale University, 18-20 March, 2010.