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Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century

dc.contributor.authorLópez Salazar Codes, Ana Isabel
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-07T10:12:51Z
dc.date.available2024-10-07T10:12:51Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea
dc.description.facultyFac. de Geografía e Historia
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.sponsorshipMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación de España
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversidad Complutense de Madrid (Grupo de investigación “Virtuosa Pars. Política y cultura de las élites ibéricas en la Alta Edad Moderna. España y Portugal, siglos XVI-XVII)
dc.description.statuspub
dc.identifier.citationLópez-Salazar Codes, Ana Isabel. Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century. Religions. 2023. 14 (11): 1388.
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/rel14111388
dc.identifier.issn2077-1444
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108691
dc.issue.number11
dc.journal.titleReligions
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.initial1388
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2020-113602GB-I00/ES/CONECTAR LOS TROPICOS: PRACTICAS LETRADAS DEL CLERO Y CIRCULACION CULTURAL EN LOS ESPACIOS DEL IMPERIO PORTUGUES DE LA EDAD MODERNA (1580-1750)/
dc.relation.projectIDPID2019-109168GB-I00
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.cdu93
dc.subject.cdu94
dc.subject.cdu940
dc.subject.keywordPortugal
dc.subject.keywordEarly Modern Age
dc.subject.keywordInquistion
dc.subject.keywordNew Christians
dc.subject.keywordPurity of blood
dc.subject.keywordSocial discrimination
dc.subject.ucmHistoria moderna
dc.subject.ucmRacismo
dc.subject.ucmHistoria
dc.subject.unesco55 Historia
dc.subject.unesco5504.04 Historia Moderna
dc.subject.unesco5503 Historia de Países
dc.titleInquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century
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