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__The Marrano Factory__argues that the Portuguese Inquisition s stated intention of extirpating heresies and purifying Portuguese Catholicism was a monumental hoax; the true purpose of the Holy Office was the fabrication rather than the destruction of "Judaizers." The caste or "race" of the New Christians was in reality synonymous with the Portuguese mercantile middle class which conservative Portuguese society would not tolerate. Most or nearly all of the New Christian Inquisitorial victims (some 40,000 between 1540 and 1765) were unremarkable Catholics who often had minimal Jewish ancestry. The Portuguese Inquisitorial procedure was not designed to distinguish between guilt and innocence, but considered any defendant, once categorized a New Christian, a Judaizer. First published in Portuguese in 1969, this is the only work by Antonio Jose Saraiva available in English and the only single-volume history devoted primarily to the working of the Portuguese Inquisition, a most lucid and compact survey. It presents Saraiva s 1975 revised history and analysis of the Portuguese Inquisition; a 1971 interview with Professor Israel Salvator Revah; Saraiva s dialogues and Revah s reply of the

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Author

António José Saraiva; Herman Prins Salomon; Sassoon

Publisher

Brill Academic Publishers

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9789047400868

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Philosophy