(Foreign) Bodies: Stigmatizing New Christians in Early Modern Spain

• Main Author: Gebke, Julia (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social & cultural history; European history; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; History of medicine; History of religion; Gender studies, gender groups; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Hispanic & Latino studies; Conversos, Moriscos, New Christians, Purity of Blood, Spain, Early Modern Period, Racism; ÖFOS 2012, History of science; ÖFOS 2012, Modern history; ÖFOS 2012, European history; Conversos, Morisken, Neuchristen, Blutreinheit Ilimpieza de sangre, Spanien, Frühe Neuzeit, Rassismus; ÖFOS 2012, Wissenschaftsgeschichte; ÖFOS 2012, Neuere Geschichte; ÖFOS 2012, Europäische Geschichte
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...