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Heretics or daughters of Israel? : the crypto-Jewish women of Castile / Renée Levine Melammed.

By: Melammed, Renée Levine
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: vi, 256 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195095804Subject(s): Jews -- Spain -- Castile -- History | Marranos -- Spain -- Castile -- History | Jewish Christians -- Spain -- Castile -- History | Inquisition -- Spain -- Castile -- History | Jewish women -- Religious life -- Spain -- Castile | Castile (Spain) -- Ethnic relationsDDC classification: 305.48/8924 LOC classification: DS135.S75 | .C336 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.
Contents:
Jews and conversas: the fist century of crypto-Judaism -- The lives of Judaizing women after 1492 -- Messianic turmoil circa 1500 -- Castilian conversas at work -- The Lopez-Villarreal family: three convicted Judaizers (1516-1521) -- The López women's Tachas -- The Inquisition and the midwife -- The Judaizers of Alcázar at the end of the sixteenth century: "corks floating on water".

Jews and conversas: the fist century of crypto-Judaism -- The lives of Judaizing women after 1492 -- Messianic turmoil circa 1500 -- Castilian conversas at work -- The Lopez-Villarreal family: three convicted Judaizers (1516-1521) -- The López women's Tachas -- The Inquisition and the midwife -- The Judaizers of Alcázar at the end of the sixteenth century: "corks floating on water".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.

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