The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal: King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496-7)

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BRILL, 15 oct 2007 - 325 páginas
In 1496-7, King Manuel I of Portugal forced the Jews of his kingdom to convert to Christianity and expelled all his Muslim subjects. Portugal was the first kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula to end definitively Christian-Jewish-Muslim coexistence, creating an exclusively Christian realm. Drawing upon narrative and documentary sources in Portuguese, Spanish and Hebrew, this book pieces together the developments that led to the events of 1496-7 and presents a detailed reconstruction of the persecution. It challenges widely held views concerning the impact of the arrival in Portugal of the Jews expelled from Castile in 1492, the diplomatic wrangling that led to the forced conversion of the Portuguese Jews in 1497 and the causes behind the expulsion of the Muslim minority.
 

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Introduction
1
The Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Medieval Portugal
21
Castilian Conversos and Jews in Portugal c1480c1495
84
The Death of Joao II and the Accession of Manuel I
139
The General Conversion of the Jews and Renewal of the Converso Problem
182
The Expulsion of the Muslims from Portugal the Forgotten Persecution
241
Conclusion
282
Bibliography
299
General Index
321
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François Soyer, Ph.D. (2006) in History, University of Cambridge, is a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Evora. He has published on religious minorities and the Inquisition in Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Portugal.

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