- A
converso (Spanish: [komˈbeɾso]; Portuguese: [kõˈvɛɾsu];
feminine form conversa), "convert" (from
Latin conversus 'converted,
turned around'), was a Jew...
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specifically refers to the
charge of crypto-Judaism,
whereas the term
converso was used for the
wider po****tion of
Jewish converts to Catholicism, whether...
- San
Paolo Converso is a
former Roman Catholic church in Milan,
region of Lombardy, Italy, now
utilized as a
contemporary art space. The
church was constructed...
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conversos from
certain positions based on ancestry. The
earliest known case
arose in
Toledo in 1449, amid a tax
revolt that also
targeted conversos....
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thousands of
forced conversions,
torture and executions, the ****cution of
conversos and moriscos, and the m****
expulsions of Jews and
Muslims from Spain....
- Christians"
refers to the
Jewish converts, who were
generally known as
Conversos (or in a more
derogatory fashion Marranos),
while the
Muslim converts...
- The
history of the Jews in
Latin America began with
conversos who
joined the
Spanish and
Portuguese expeditions to the continents. The
Alhambra Decree...
- politically, and
economically advantageous to
convert to
Catholicism (see
Converso, Morisco, and Marrano). The
existence of
superficial converts from Judaism...
- the 14th and 15th
centuries in
Spain and Portugal. The vast
majority of
conversos remained in
Spain and Portugal, and
their descendants, who
number in the...
- and
Portuguese Jews who
outwardly professed Catholicism, also
known as
Conversos, Marranos, or the ****im. The
phenomenon is
especially ****ociated with...
