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100	1	0	_aMuchnik, Natalia _eauthor
245	0	0	_aFrom Judaism to Catholicism: The Vagaries of Faith in the Seventeenth Century
260			_c2002.
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520			_aThe virulence of the Spanish Inquisition pushed population of converso descent into exile from the end of the fifteenth century. An important part of this population settled in the Judeo-Portuguese official or underground communities in Western Europe. However, at the same time, some individuals, and especially some young people born within Judaism, took the opposite path, converting to Catholicism and moving back to Spain. These movements were especially common during the seventeenth century and are analyzed here using examples where the choice was obvious (the numerous cases of merchants shuttling back and forth between European ports and the Iberian peninsula will be ignored in this study), in order to understand the spiritual reasons behind conversions, the settling on Inquisition territories, as well as the welcoming of these applicants to baptism. Moreover, in a more methodological perspective, the specifics of the reports on the newcomers to the Holy Office proves to be very precious to our knowledge of the western Sephardic diaspora, and allows us to avoid the simplifying frames of the Inquisition which divide historians.
690			_acatholicism
690			_aconversion
690			_aSpain
690			_aSeventeenth century
690			_aInquisition
690			_aJews
786	0		_nRevue historique | o 623 | 3 | 2002-09-01 | p. 571-609 | 0035-3264
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-historique-2002-3-page-571?lang=en
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