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- A converso (Spanish: [komˈbeɾso]; Portuguese: [kõˈvɛɾsu]; feminine form conversa), "convert" (from Latin conversus 'converted, turned around'), was a Jew...
- specifically refers to the charge of crypto-Judaism, whereas the term converso was used for the wider po****tion of Jewish converts to Catholicism, whether...
- thousands of forced conversions, torture and executions, the ****cution of conversos and moriscos, and the m**** expulsions of Jews and Muslims from Spain....
- Mediterranean Sea, who are descendants of Majorcan Jews that either were conversos (forcible converts to Christianity) or were Crypto-Jews, forced to keep...
- San Paolo Converso is a former Roman Catholic church in Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy, now utilized as a contemporary art space. The church was constructed...
- Ottoman Empire. She also developed an escape network that saved hundreds of conversos from the Inquisition. Like other New Christians, she had a Christianized...
- and Portuguese Jews who outwardly professed Catholicism, also known as Conversos, Marranos, or the ****im. The phenomenon is especially ****ociated with...
- 1017/S0269359300000069. ISSN 0269-3593. JSTOR 43706454. Wortley, John (1996). "DE LATRONE CONVERSO : THE TALE OF THE CONVERTED ROBBER (BHG 1450kb W861)". Byzantion. 66 (1):...
- politically, and economically advantageous to convert to Catholicism (see Converso, Morisco, and Marrano). The existence of superficial converts from Judaism...
- The history of the Jews in Latin America began with conversos who joined the Spanish and Portuguese expeditions to the continents. The Alhambra Decree...