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Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In __The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos,__ Marie-Theresa Hernández unmasks the secret lives of __conversos__ and __judaizantes__ and their likely influence onthe Catholic Churchin the New World. The terms __converso__ and __judaizante__ are often used for descendants of Spanish Jews (the Sephardi, or Sefarditas as they are sometimes called), who converted under duress to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There are few, if any, archival documents that prove the existence of __judaizantes__ after the Spanish expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and the Portuguese expulsion in 1497, as it is unlikely that a secret Jew in sixteenth-century Spain would have documented his allegiance to the Law of Moses, thereby providing evidence for the Inquisition. On a __Da Vinci Code__ – style quest, Hernández persisted in hunting for a trove of forgotten manuscripts at the New York Public Library. These documents, once unearthed, describe the Jewish/Christian religious beliefs of an early nineteenth-century Catholic priest in Mexico City, focusing on the relationship between the Virgin of Guadalupe and Judaism. With this di

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Author

Marie-Theresa Hernández; Marie-Theresa Hernández

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813574172

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Christian