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- Title
LOS ESTATUTOS MUNICIPALES DE LIMPIEZA DE SANGRE EN LA CASTILLA MODERNA. UNA REVISIÓN CRÍTICA.
- Authors
Mesa, Enrique Soria
- Abstract
Purity-of-blood Statutes were highly significant in the Iberian world, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Their function was to exclude Jewish converts and other social groups from power and honour. However, there are very few studies that analyse in depth the real meaning of the genealogical evidence that candidates were obliged to produce. This paper aims to show how these proofs concealed a huge "genealogical fraud". The many documents analysed relate primarily to the statutes of blood purity imposed on Spanish cities. These statutes, however, were few in number and were established too late to be effective. This explains the large number of conversos within the urban élites of modern Spain.
- Subjects
JEWISH converts; BLOOD in religion; SPANISH Golden Age, 1516-1700
- Publication
Mediterranea - Ricerche Storiche, 2013, Issue 27, p9
- ISSN
1824-3010
- Publication type
Abstract