1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782341403321

Autore

Soyer François

Titolo

The persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal [[electronic resource] ] : King Manuel I and the end of religious tolerance (1496-7) / / by François Soyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-281-93694-4

9786611936945

90-474-3155-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 pages, plates) : illustrations, maps

Collana

The medieval Mediterranean ; ; v. 69

Disciplina

305.892/4046909024

Soggetti

Jews - Portugal - History

Jews - Persecutions - Portugal - History

Crypto-Jews - Portugal - History

Jews - Spain - History

Jews - Persecutions - Spain - History

Crypto-Jews - Spain - History

Muslims - Portugal - History

Portugal Ethnic relations

Spain Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-319) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Jewish and Muslim minorities in medieval Portugal -- Castilian conversos and Jews in Portugal, c.1480-c.1495  -- The death of Joao II and the accession of Manuel I -- The "general conversion" of the Jews and renewal of the "converso problem" -- The expulsion of the Muslims from Portugal: the forgotten persecution.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1496-7, King Manuel I of Portugal forced the Jews of his kingdom to convert to Christianity and expelled all his Muslim subjects. Portugal was the first kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula to end definitively Christian-Jewish-Muslim coexistence, creating an exclusively Christian realm. Drawing upon narrative and documentary sources in Portuguese, Spanish and Hebrew, this book pieces together the developments that



led to the events of 1496-7 and presents a detailed reconstruction of the persecution. It challenges widely held views concerning the impact of the arrival in Portugal of the Jews expelled from Castile in 1492, the diplomatic wrangling that led to the forced conversion of the Portuguese Jews in 1497 and the causes behind the expulsion of the Muslim minority.