Keyword

conversos

Description: Jews or people of Jewish descent who converted to Christianity, especially in medieval and early modern Iberia and its colonial contexts.

Primary topic: Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies (62%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1129467

OpenAlex ID: keywords/conversos

A History of the Jews in Christian Spain

1967 · Vicente Cantarino · Hispanic American Historical Review · 286

The origins of the Inquisition in fifteenth century Spain

1996 · Choice Reviews Online · 243

Early Modern Jewry

2010 · David B. Ruderman · Princeton University Press eBooks · 197

Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance

2018 · Juan-Camilo Chacón-Duque, Kaustubh Adhikari, et al. · Nature Communications · 179

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A History of the Inquisition of Spain

1906 · George L. Burr, Henry Charles Lea · The American Historical Review · 163

The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision

1999 · Thomas F. Glick, Henry Kamen · The American Historical Review · 145

Atlantic diasporas : Jews, conversos, and crypto-Jews in the age of mercantilism, 1500-1800

2009 · Richard L. Kagan, Philip D. Morgan · 136

Diasporas within a Diaspora

2002 · Jonathan Israel · BRILL eBooks · 134

The Spanish Inquisition

2006 · Helen Rawlings · Wiley eBooks · 132

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Mass Conversion and Genealogical Mentalities: Jews and Christians in Fifteenth-Century Spain

2002 · D. Nirenberg · Past & Present · 129

Hebrews of the Portuguese nation: conversos and community in early modern Amsterdam

1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 125

The Other Within

2009 · Yirmiyahu Yovel · Princeton University Press eBooks · 122

Diasporas Within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-Jews and the World of Maritime Empires (1540-1740)

2002 · Jonathan Israël · 122

Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain.

1997 · Mark D. Meyerson, Norman Roth · The American Historical Review · 112

Beyond Tolerance and Persecution: Reassessing Our Approach to MedievalConvivencia

2005 · Jonathan Ray · Jewish Social Studies · 110

Secrecy and deceit: the religion of the Crypto-Jews

1997 · Choice Reviews Online · 102

The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies: Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, the Canaries, Mexico, Peru, New Granada

1908 · George L. Burr, Henry Charles Lea · The American Historical Review · 95

The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800

2001 · Bernardini, Paolo 1963-, Fiering, Norman · Berghahn Books · 89

:The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision

1999 · John Tedeschi · Sixteenth Century Journal · 86

An Alternative Path to Modernity

2000 · Yosef Kaplan · BRILL eBooks · 81

Jewish Conversion, the Spanish Pure Blood Laws and Reformation: A Revisionist View of Racial and Religious Antisemitism

1987 · Jerome Friedman · Sixteenth Century Journal · 81

From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto Isaac Cardoso: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics

1971 · Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 81

The Jews of France

1999 · Esther Benbassa · Princeton University Press eBooks · 79

Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World

2000 · Pedro M. Guibovich · Hispanic American Historical Review · 77

:Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs. 1580-1640

1994 · Abel A. Alves · Sixteenth Century Journal · 77

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Citation count: 12,480