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First published in Portuguese in 1969, this is the only work by Antonio Jose 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. "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."
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This book scrutinizes literary works based on Judaism, Jews and their descendants, written or printed by the Portuguese, from the forced conversion of Jews in 1497, until the ending of the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773. It tries to understand what motivated this vast literary production, its different currents, and how they evolved. Additionally, it studies the image of New Christians and seeks the reasons for the perpetuation of this perception of Jewish descendants in the Early Modern Portuguese world. The Imaginary Synagogue seeks to identify which Jews and which ‘synagogue’ those authors constructed in their texts and their reasons for doing so, and offers conclusions on the self-affirmed Catholic importance of this literary current.
O presente livro reúne esforços conjuntos de vários investigadores ibéricos e brasileiros no sentido de compreender a relação entre as pessoas e as coisas ao longo do período moderno, quer estas últimas constituam marcas de distinção, objetos de consumo corrente, ou façam parte de hábitos alimentares. Embora o estudo destes aspetos apresente a compreensível tendência para abordar grupos de elite, sempre melhor representados na documentação, pretendeu-se abordar um espectro diversificado de grupos e de ambientes sociais, no sentido de apreender diferenças e semelhanças entre os extratos médios e altos das sociedades ibéricas. O conjunto de trabalhos agora apresentados corr...