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Creating Conversos: The Carvajal Santa Mar a Family in Early Modern Spain
0268103216 epub In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martnez-Dvila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government positions. Rather than acting as alienated and marginalized subjects, the conversos were able to craft new identities and strategies not just for survival but for prospering in the most adverse circumstances. Martnez-Dvila provides an extensive, elaborately detailed case study of the CarvajalSanta Mara clan from its beginnings in late fourteenth-century Castile. By tracing the family ties and intermarriages of the Jewish rabbinic ha-Levi lineage of Burgos, Spain (which became the