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Creating Conversos: The Carvajal-Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain

Name: Creating Conversos: The Carvajal-Santa María Family in Early Modern Spain
Brand: University of Notre Dame Press
SKU: 9780268103217
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Contributors:

Roger Louis MartÃnez-DÃ¡vila

Publisher:

University of Notre Dame Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History, Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Europe, Latin America

Book Topic:

Spain

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Release Date:

2018-04-30

ISBN 13:

9780268103217

Weight:

1.9 lbs

Size:

10.00 x 7.00 x 0.88 inches

Pages:

372

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In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Mart?nez-D?vila 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. Mart?nez-D?vila provides an extensive, elaborately detailed case study of the Carvajal-Santa Mar?a 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 converso Santa Mar?a clan) with the Old Christian Carvajal line of Plasencia, Spain, Mart?nez-D?vila demonstrates the family's changing identity, and how the monolithic notions of ethnic and religious disposition were broken down by the group and negotiated anew as they transformed themselves from marginal into mainstream characters at the center of the economies of power in the world they inhabited. They succeeded in rising to the pinnacles of power within the church hierarchy in Spain, even to the point of contesting the succession to the papacy and overseeing the Inquisitorial investigation and execution of extended family members, including Luis de Carvajal "The Younger" and most of his immediate family during the 1590s in Mexico City. Martinez-D?vila offers a rich panorama of the many forces that shaped the emergence of modern Spain, including tax policies, rivalries among the nobility, and ecclesiastical politics. The extensive genealogical research enriches the historical reconstruction, filling in gaps and illuminating contradictions in standard contemporary narratives. His text is strengthened by many family trees that assist the reader as the threads of political and social relationships are carefully disentangled.

About the Author

Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila is associate professor of history at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and is a UC3M CONEX-Marie Curie Fellow at the Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid.

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