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'Converso' (Spanish and Portuguese for "a convert", from Latin ''conversus'', "converted, turned around") and its feminine form 'conversa' referred to Jews or Muslims or the descendants of Jews or Muslims who had converted to Catholicism in Spain and Portugal, particularly during the 1300s and 1400s.
See the main articles:
★ 'Morisco' for New Christians of Moorish origin. The term ''morisco'' may also refer to Crypto-Muslims, i.e. those who secretly continued to practice Islam.
★ 'Marrano' for New Christians of Jewish origin. The term ''marrano'' may also refer to Crypto-Jews, i.e. those who secretly continued to practice Judaism.
''Conversos'' were apparently subject to harassment from both the community they were leaving and that they were joining. Both Christians and Jews called them ''tornadizo'' (renegade), and laws were passed during the reigns of Jaime I, Alfonso X and Juan I forbidding the use of this epithet. This was part of a larger pattern of royal protection, laws also being promulgated to protect their property, forbid attempts to reconvert them, and regulating the behavior of the ''conversos'' themselves, preventing their cohabitation or even dining with Jews, lest they reconvert. However, they did not enjoy legal equality, Alfonso VII prohibiting the "recently converted" from holding office in Toledo, and they had both supporters and bitter opponents within the Christian secular and religious leadership. ''Conversos'' could be found in various roles within the Iberian kingdoms, from Bishop to royal mistress, showing a degree of general acceptance, yet they would become targets of occasional pogroms and of the Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition.
While pure blood (so-called ''limpieza de sangre'') would come to be placed at a premium, particularly among the nobility, in a 15th century defense of ''conversos'' Bishop Lope de Barrientos would list what Roth calls "a veritable 'Who's Who' of Spanish nobility" as having ''converso'' members or being of ''converso'' descent and would point out that given the near-universal conversion of Iberian Jews during Visigothic times, (quoting Roth) "who among the Christians of Spain could be certain that he is not a descendant of those ''conversos''?"
★ Roth, Norman, ''Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
'Converso' (Spanish and Portuguese for "a convert", from Latin ''conversus'', "converted, turned around") and its feminine form 'conversa' referred to Jews or Muslims or the descendants of Jews or Muslims who had converted to Catholicism in Spain and Portugal, particularly during the 1300s and 1400s.
See the main articles:
★ 'Morisco' for New Christians of Moorish origin. The term ''morisco'' may also refer to Crypto-Muslims, i.e. those who secretly continued to practice Islam.
★ 'Marrano' for New Christians of Jewish origin. The term ''marrano'' may also refer to Crypto-Jews, i.e. those who secretly continued to practice Judaism.
''Conversos'' were apparently subject to harassment from both the community they were leaving and that they were joining. Both Christians and Jews called them ''tornadizo'' (renegade), and laws were passed during the reigns of Jaime I, Alfonso X and Juan I forbidding the use of this epithet. This was part of a larger pattern of royal protection, laws also being promulgated to protect their property, forbid attempts to reconvert them, and regulating the behavior of the ''conversos'' themselves, preventing their cohabitation or even dining with Jews, lest they reconvert. However, they did not enjoy legal equality, Alfonso VII prohibiting the "recently converted" from holding office in Toledo, and they had both supporters and bitter opponents within the Christian secular and religious leadership. ''Conversos'' could be found in various roles within the Iberian kingdoms, from Bishop to royal mistress, showing a degree of general acceptance, yet they would become targets of occasional pogroms and of the Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition.
While pure blood (so-called ''limpieza de sangre'') would come to be placed at a premium, particularly among the nobility, in a 15th century defense of ''conversos'' Bishop Lope de Barrientos would list what Roth calls "a veritable 'Who's Who' of Spanish nobility" as having ''converso'' members or being of ''converso'' descent and would point out that given the near-universal conversion of Iberian Jews during Visigothic times, (quoting Roth) "who among the Christians of Spain could be certain that he is not a descendant of those ''conversos''?"
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★ Roth, Norman, ''Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
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