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Creating Conversos - The Carvajal-Santa Maria Family in Early Modern Spain (Hardcover)
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Creating Conversos - The Carvajal-Santa Maria Family in Early Modern Spain (Hardcover)
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In Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martinez-Davila 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.
Martinez-Davila provides an extensive, elaborately detailed case
study of the Carvajal-Santa Maria 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 Maria clan) with the Old
Christian Carvajal line of Plasencia, Spain, Martinez-Davila
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-Davila 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.
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