Spanish Marranism Re-examined
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https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.2008.v68.i1.460Keywords:
Inquisition, Judaizers, Quintanar de la Orden, MarranismAbstract
Previous studies have dealt with the intensive inquisitorial persecution in 1588-1600 of a native Castilian Judaizing nucleus located in the towns of Quintanar de la Orden and Alcázar de San Juan (under the jurisdictions of the Cuenca and Toledo courts). Because of date, location, numbers and autochtonous ethnicity of its victims, the episode constitutes somewhat of an anomaly in the annals of Castilian inquisitorial courts. Based on a study of the trial records, I. S. Révah and C. Amiel have concluded that these prove the reality of crypto-Judaism in both places and that therefore the religious quiddity of an inquisitorial document is a reliable historical source. Here, I submit the Marranism of late 16th century Quintanar and Alcázar, as presented by these authors, to a close reading. I have taken a fresh look at all 64 surviving trial records pertaining to this episode and arrived at conclusions far more shaded than those of my predecessors.
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