ANTONIO DE MENDOZA OR THE LONG SHADOW OF A SILENT SEDITION

MARÍA JESÚS TORQUEMADA

doi:10.21134/sjls.vi3.1470

ANTONIO DE MENDOZA OR THE LONG SHADOW OF A SILENT SEDITION

Authors

MARÍA JESÚS TORQUEMADA PROF. TITULAR DEPARTAMENTO DE DERECHO ROMANO E HISTORIA DEL DERECHO, FACULTAD DE DERECHO UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21134/sjls.vi3.1470

Keywords:

Inquisition, crypto-Jew, conversion, religious power

Abstract

The article deals with the long-term consequences of the legal proceedings suffered by some false converts before the Inquisition. The Sephardic community seeks its roots in the documents relating to these trials in order to establish their true origins.