(Fremd)Körper Die Stigmatisierung der Neuchristen im Spanien der Frühen Neuzeit

• Main Author: Gebke, Julia (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Conversos, Moriscos, New Christians, Purity of Blood, Spain, Early Modern Period, Racism; Conversos, Morisken, Neuchristen, Blutreinheit Ilimpieza de sangre, Spanien, Frühe Neuzeit, Rassismus
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The ideology of purity-of-blood (limpieza de sangre) divided early modern Iberian society into two different classes: Old Christians and New Christians. New Christians, i.e. Conversos (converted Jews) and Moriscos (converted Muslims), but also their offspring, were thought to be inferior Christians...