a medieval Spanish Jew who converted to Catholicism, usually in order to avoid persecution from either the Spanish Inquisition or the Portuguese Inquisition
Examples of 'converso' in a sentence
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The article reconstructs the history of two converso families of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Markus Schreiber 2018, 'Entre las sociedades ibéricas y la diáspora judía: Los Pinto y los Ribeiro en lossiglos XVI y XVII', Sefarad : Revista de Estudios Hebraicos y Sefardíeshttp://sefarad.revistas.csic.es/index.php/sefarad/article/view/824. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)