The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain, כרך 1Random House, 1995 - 1384 עמודים The Spanish Inquisition was responsible for one of the fiercest repressions in human history. It fused the triple evil of a police state, a totalitarian ideology, and racial persecution. Its terrible reverberations have been felt in our own century, and are likely to be felt in the next. Yet for all its notoriety, its origins have never been fully explored or clearly understood before now. What caused this monstrous attack upon Spain's so-called conversos - the Christian descendants of the Jews who had been forced to convert during the anti-Semitic riots that swept across Spain at the end of the fourteenth century? Were the thousands of conversos who died at the hands of the Inquisition in fact secretly still Jews, only pretending to be good Christians, as the Inquisition charged and as most scholars continue to believe? In this magnum opus, the renowned scholar B. Netanyahu shows us that this claim is groundless. After a lifetime of research in long-unexamined Spanish sources, he reveals that at the time of the Inquisition, almost all conversos were in fact full-fledged Christians, and that the few Judaizers among them had dwindled into insignificance. The vast machinery of the Inquisition could not have been founded to kill a dying movement. What, then, was its purpose? The Origins of the Inquisition answers this question definitively. By examining Spanish anti-Semitism from its origins, Professor Netanyahu demonstrates that the brutal anti-converso movement that led to the Inquisition was the same one responsible for the massacre of Jews in Spain in 1391 and the ensuing mass conversion of Spanish Jews (at sword-point) to Christianity. The rapid rise of the conversos to high royaloffices - higher, even, than those attained by their Jewish forefathers - made them the target of the same forces that had persecuted the Jews. It was to remove the conversos from their influential positions, and to prevent their intermarriage with the Spanish people, that they were accused of being secret Judaizers and members of a "corrupt" race that would "pollute" the Spanish blood. This was the first time that extreme anti-Semitism was wedded to a theory of race - a union that would dramatically affect the course of modern history. |
תוכן
The Jewish Question | 3 |
The Spanish Scene | 28 |
The Struggle for Monarchic Superiority | 217 |
The Great Debate | 351 |
The SentenciaEstatuto | 367 |
Converso CounterAttack | 385 |
Juan de Torquemada | 421 |
Second Attack on the Conversos | 486 |
Later Old Christian Controversy | 814 |
The Alboraique | 848 |
Alonso de Oropesa | 855 |
The Chroniclers of Enrique IV | 897 |
The Early Period | 915 |
The Major Causes | 925 |
The SocialEconomic Reasons | 950 |
Sidelights and Afterthoughts | 1048 |
The Privilege | 512 |
Diego de Valera | 578 |
Lope de Barrientos | 610 |
Alonso Díaz de Montalvo | 619 |
The Crónicas | 628 |
Reverses and Triumphs | 662 |
End of Alvaro de Luna | 681 |
Closing the Circle | 709 |
His Aims and Tactics | 715 |
The Delusive Peace | 724 |
A The Number of the Marranos in Spain | 1095 |
B Diego de Anaya and His Advocacy of Limpieza | 1103 |
Juan de Torquemada ΠΙΟ | 1110 |
On the Reliability of Torquemadas Testimony | 1117 |
F The Death of Enrique IV | 1127 |
When Did It Begin? | 1133 |
J Racism in Germany and Spain | 1141 |
K The Converso Conspiracies Against the Inquisition | 1147 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 1349 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain <span dir=ltr>Benzion Netanyahu</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2001 |
The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain, כרך 1 <span dir=ltr>Benzion Netanyahu</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 1995 |