Passing stranger: a converso merchant in Elizabethan London
An account of the life of Dunstan Anes, a Portuguese converso whose family had origins in Valladolid. Over a period of more than fifty years, from 1541, Dunstan established himself as a wealthy merchant who acted both officially and clandestinely on behalf of the English crown. He successfully engag...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2026 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) |
| Repositorio: | RIO. Repositorio Institucional Olavide |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:rio_________::30e558cdf17251b4e0f20e9b4945628a |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10433/26619 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Converso London Bezoar Merchant Court Londres Comerciante Corte |
| Sumario: | An account of the life of Dunstan Anes, a Portuguese converso whose family had origins in Valladolid. Over a period of more than fifty years, from 1541, Dunstan established himself as a wealthy merchant who acted both officially and clandestinely on behalf of the English crown. He successfully engaged with the most powerful institutions of the country: the court, the church and his livery company, the Worshipful Company of Grocers. Dunstan was at the centre of a group of about 100 conversos living in London more than two hundred years after Jews had been expelled from England, and nearly a century before they would be officially readmitted. Although he established himself as a gentleman and property owner, within twenty years of Dunstan’s death the converso community had all but disappeared from London. |
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