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Author Soyer, François, author

Title Antisemitic conspiracy theories in the early modern Iberian world : narratives of fear and hatred / by François Soyer
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series The Iberian religious world, 2213-9141 ; volume 5
Iberian religious world ; v. 5.
Summary In Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred, François Soyer offers the first detailed historical analysis of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Spain, Portugal and their overseas colonies between 1450 and 1750. These conspiracy theories accused Jews and conversos, the descendants of medieval Jewish converts to Christianity, of deadly plots and blamed them for a range of social, religious, military and economic problems. Ultimately, many Iberian antisemitic conspiracy theorists aimed to create a 'moral panic' about the converso presence in Iberian society, thereby justifying the legitimacy of ethnic discrimination within the Church and society. Moreover, they were also exploited by some churchmen seeking to impose an idealized sense of communal identity upon the lay faithful
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 11, 2020)
Subject Antisemitism -- Spain -- History
Antisemitism -- Portugal -- History
Jews -- Persecutions -- Spain -- History
Jews -- Persecutions -- Portugal -- History
Crypto-Jews -- Spain -- History
Crypto-Jews -- Iberian Peninsula -- History
Common fallacies -- Spain
Common fallacies -- Portugal
Crypto-Jews
Antisemitism
Common fallacies
Ethnic relations
Jews -- Persecutions
SUBJECT Spain -- Ethnic relations
Portugal -- Ethnic relations
Subject Europe -- Iberian Peninsula
Portugal
Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019014698
ISBN 9789004395602
9004395601