The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal

King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496-7)
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20592-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1260 g

Reihe: Brill's Paperback Collection / History

In 1496-7, King Manuel I of Portugal forced the Jews of his kingdom to convert to Christianity and expelled all his Muslim subjects. Portugal was the first kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula to end definitively Christian-Jewish-Muslim coexistence, creating an exclusively Christian realm. Drawing upon narrative and documentary sources in Portuguese, Spanish and Hebrew, this book pieces together the developments that led to the events of 1496-7 and presents a detailed reconstruction of the persecution. It challenges widely held views concerning the impact of the arrival in Portugal of the Jews expelled from Castile in 1492, the diplomatic wrangling that led to the forced conversion of the Portuguese Jews in 1497 and the causes behind the expulsion of the Muslim minority.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in social, religious and political history, jewish and islamic history, the history of tolerance and intolerance, as well as the history of the Catholic Church, Spain and Portugal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soyer, François

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes for Readers: Names, Dates and Currency
Abbreviations
List of Plates

Introduction

1: The Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Medieval Portugal
2: Castilian Conversos and Jews in Portugal c.1480-c.1495
3: The Death of João II and the Accession of Manuel I
4: The “General Conversion” of the Jews and Renewal of the “Converso Problem”
5: The Expulsion of the Muslims from Portugal: the Forgotten Persecution

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

François Soyer, Ph.D. (2006) in History, University of Cambridge, is a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Evora. He has published on religious minorities and the Inquisition in Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Portugal.