Don’t Drink the Chocolate; Domestic Slavery and the Exigencies of Fasting for Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines some of the elements of the identity of people who secretly practiced certain Judaic rituals in seventeenth-century Mexico. It is drawn from research on an extensive project that is based on a close reading of the testimonial records of more than a hundred individuals who were accused of and prosecuted for Jewish heresy by the Mexican Holy Office of the Inquisition in the 1640s. The second quarter of the seventeenth century was a time of troubles and transformations in t...
Source: Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos
Author: Robert J. Ferry
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1994638282