The Marrano Factory

The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians 1536-1765

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ID9308542
AuthorsAntonio José Saraiva, Herman Prins Salomon, Sassoon Sassoon
Year2001
Pages404
Publication date2001-09-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Marrano Factory (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789047400868
OpenAlexW626152025
Open LibraryOL51657912M
ISBN9789047400868
LanguageEN
Citations received20

The Marrano Factory argues that the Portuguese Inquisition’s stated intention of extirpating heresies and purifying Portuguese Catholicism was a monumental hoax; the true purpose of the Holy Office was the fabrication rather than the destruction of "Judaizers". The caste or "race" of the New Christians was in reality synonymous with the Portuguese mercantile middle class which conservative Portuguese society would not tolerate. Most or nearly all of the New Christian Inquisitorial victims (some 40,000 between 1540 and 1765) were unremarkable Catholics who often had minimal Jewish ancestry. The Portuguese Inquisitorial procedure was not designed to distinguish between guilt and innocence, but considered any defendant, once categorized a New Christian, a Judaizer. First published in Portuguese in 1969, this is the only work by António José Saraiva available in English and the only single-volume history devoted primarily to the working of the Portuguese Inquisition, a most lucid and compact survey. It presents Saraiva’s 1975 revised history and analysis of the Portuguese Inquisition; a 1971 interview with Professor Israel Salvator Révah; Saraiva’s dialogues and Révah’s reply of the same year; both scholars’ letters to the Diário de Lisboa. Footnotes and introductions have been expanded. A brief survey of the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa, India, as well as a list of Portuguese kings and Inquisitors-general and an up-to-date bibliography have been added

Art · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Portuguese · Classics · History · History of Colonial Brazil · Law · Philosophy

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