![]() | In the Shadow of the Virgin: Inquisitors, Friars, and Conversos in Guadalupe, Spain Subjects: Jews -- Spain -- Guadalupe -- History; Marranos -- Spain -- Guadalupe -- History; Jewish Christians -- Spain -- Guadalupe -- History; Jews -- Persecutions -- Spain -- Guadalupe; Inquisition -- Spain -- Guadalupe -- History; Guadalupe (Spain) -- Ethnic rel; On June 11, 1485, in the pilgrimage town of Guadalupe, the Holy Office of the Inquisition executed Alonso de Paredes--a converted Jew who posed an economic and political threat to the town's powerful friars--as a heretic. Wedding engrossing narratives of Paredes and other figures with astute historical analysis, this finely wrought study reconsiders the relationship between religious identity and political authority in late-Medieval and early-modern Spain. Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. |
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