I am, however, particularly indebted to the gracious cooperation and generous help of a great many Spanish libraries and archives. A scholar who is able to work in an institution with an outstanding library is fortunate, indeed, and my gratitude to the University of Wisconsin Libraries in general, and to the interlibrary loan personnel in particular, is great. Burns, S.J., and Thomas Glick for their reading of the manuscript and helpful suggestions. Among scholars in America who deserve particular thanks are Brian Dutton, who constantly and generously assisted in the work on converso poets, and Robert I. These include Luis Suarez Fernandez, Emilio Mitre, Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada, Carlos del Valle, Jose Ramon Magdalena Nom de Deu, Miguel Angel Motis Dolader, and my friends Antonio Collantes de Teran Sanchez and Isabel Montes Romero-Camacho who gave me so generously of their time in Seville, and many others. Nevertheless, I should like to record my particular gratitude to at least some of the contemporary scholars, in Spain and in this country, who have so graciously assisted me with their friendship and support. Major Converso FamiliesĪcknowledgments The great debt which any scholar of the Jewish civilization of medieval Spain owes to the many hundreds of Spanish scholars, living and dead, who have written so extensively on the subject is obvious. Jewish and Converso Population in Fifteenth-Century Spain Appendix C. Critical Survey of the LiteratureĪppendix B. it will burn until it reaches the extremes of the driest wood -Andres Berndldez Punishment should be reserved for the few conversos who have relapsed, but not for the many who have not otherwise there would not be sufficient wood for the burning -Fernando de Vulgar And now in our time their smoke has ascended to the heavens in all the kingdoms of Spain and the isles a third has been burned in fire, a third fled hither and thither, and the remainder lives in great fear and awesome timorousness from the dread of their hearts and vision of their eyes -Isaac cAramaĬonversos and Crisis: The Fifteenth CenturyĬonverso Authors, Chroniclers, and PolemicistsĪppendix A. If there were an Inquisition in Castile many "Jiidaizers" would enter the flames and thus be saved from eternal fire -Alonso del Espina For the fire is lighted. Includes bibliographical references and index. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roth, Norman, 1 9 3 8 Conversos, Inquisition, and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain / Norman Roth. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street Madison, Wisconsin 53711 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 1995, 2002 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved 5 Publication of this volume has been made possible in part by a grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' UniversitiesĬonversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain Norman Roth Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
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