Linajudos and Conversos in Seville: Greed and Prejudice in Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-Century Spain - Couverture rigide

Pike, Ruth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820449644 ISBN 13 : 9780820449647

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2000

Synopsis

This book, based on new research in the Spanish archives, is the first full-length account of the activities of the linajudos, genealogists whose occupation was to scrutinize ancestries and to extort money from candidates for offices and honors who, in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, had to prove that they were not of converso (that is, Jewish) descent. In Seville many of the patrician families that dominated the transatlantic trade and governed the city in this period had intermarried with the conversos or were themselves of similar origin. This book views the linajudo phenomenon as part of the wider problem of the assimilation of the conversos into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author: Ruth Pike is Professor Emerita, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. She is the author of Enterprise and Adventure: The Genoese in Seville and the Opening of the New World; Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century; and Penal Servitude in Early Modern Spain, as well as many articles in scholarly journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820449644
• ISBN 13: 9780820449647
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 217
• Coordonnées du fabricant: GPSR Kontakt; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne