Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the Portuguese Holy Office in the process of social discrimination against New Christians, that is, those who were considered to be descendant of Jews converted to Christianity in the late fifteenth century. This article focuses specifically on...

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Autor: López Salazar Codes, Ana Isabel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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Early Modern Age
Inquistion
New Christians
Purity of blood
Social discrimination
Historia moderna
Racismo
Historia
55 Historia
5504.04 Historia Moderna
5503 Historia de Países
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spelling Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth CenturyLópez Salazar Codes, Ana Isabel9394940PortugalEarly Modern AgeInquistionNew ChristiansPurity of bloodSocial discriminationHistoria modernaRacismoHistoria55 Historia5504.04 Historia Moderna5503 Historia de PaísesThe aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the Portuguese Holy Office in the process of social discrimination against New Christians, that is, those who were considered to be descendant of Jews converted to Christianity in the late fifteenth century. This article focuses specifically on the different and changing attitudes of the Inquisitors General to the issue of purity of blood during the seventeenth century. In the course of that century, some people considered to be New Christians (with fama or nota) managed to join the Portuguese Holy Office. Nevertheless, this was not due to the fact that Inquisitors General and members of the General Council rejected discrimination using theoretical, religious and moral arguments, but to the impossibility of achieving undoubtful knowledge about the origins of those seeking to join the Inquisition. At the same time, once racial discrimination became institutionalised within the Inquisition during the final third of the sixteenth century, the Inquisitors General became less concerned about the allegations of impure blood made about some of its ministers, so long as it could be demonstrated that they were good Christians and of use to the institution, or else capable of contributing to the specific personal interests of the tribunal’s rector. Nevertheless, not all supposed or real conversos succeeded in joining the Holy Office, as evidenced by cases of self-exclusion and the numerous proofs of “purity of blood” that were not approved. To address these questions, we turn to the proofs of “purity of blood” carried out by the Portuguese Inquisition, as well as to correspondence and documents from other institutions of the Portuguese and Spanish monarchies.MDPIUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20232023-01-0120232023-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108691reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)InglésengAgencia Estatal de Investigación http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020 PID2020-113602GB-I00 CONECTAR LOS TROPICOS: PRACTICAS LETRADAS DEL CLERO Y CIRCULACION CULTURAL EN LOS ESPACIOS DEL IMPERIO PORTUGUES DE LA EDAD MODERNA (1580-1750)open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1086912026-06-02T12:44:21Z
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title Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century
spellingShingle Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century
López Salazar Codes, Ana Isabel
93
94
940
Portugal
Early Modern Age
Inquistion
New Christians
Purity of blood
Social discrimination
Historia moderna
Racismo
Historia
55 Historia
5504.04 Historia Moderna
5503 Historia de Países
title_short Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century
title_full Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century
title_fullStr Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century
title_full_unstemmed Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century
title_sort Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv López Salazar Codes, Ana Isabel
author López Salazar Codes, Ana Isabel
author_facet López Salazar Codes, Ana Isabel
author_role author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 93
94
940
Portugal
Early Modern Age
Inquistion
New Christians
Purity of blood
Social discrimination
Historia moderna
Racismo
Historia
55 Historia
5504.04 Historia Moderna
5503 Historia de Países
topic 93
94
940
Portugal
Early Modern Age
Inquistion
New Christians
Purity of blood
Social discrimination
Historia moderna
Racismo
Historia
55 Historia
5504.04 Historia Moderna
5503 Historia de Países
description The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the Portuguese Holy Office in the process of social discrimination against New Christians, that is, those who were considered to be descendant of Jews converted to Christianity in the late fifteenth century. This article focuses specifically on the different and changing attitudes of the Inquisitors General to the issue of purity of blood during the seventeenth century. In the course of that century, some people considered to be New Christians (with fama or nota) managed to join the Portuguese Holy Office. Nevertheless, this was not due to the fact that Inquisitors General and members of the General Council rejected discrimination using theoretical, religious and moral arguments, but to the impossibility of achieving undoubtful knowledge about the origins of those seeking to join the Inquisition. At the same time, once racial discrimination became institutionalised within the Inquisition during the final third of the sixteenth century, the Inquisitors General became less concerned about the allegations of impure blood made about some of its ministers, so long as it could be demonstrated that they were good Christians and of use to the institution, or else capable of contributing to the specific personal interests of the tribunal’s rector. Nevertheless, not all supposed or real conversos succeeded in joining the Holy Office, as evidenced by cases of self-exclusion and the numerous proofs of “purity of blood” that were not approved. To address these questions, we turn to the proofs of “purity of blood” carried out by the Portuguese Inquisition, as well as to correspondence and documents from other institutions of the Portuguese and Spanish monarchies.
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