‘Saben moltes coses contra molts convessos de Xàtiva e de València’. Converted Jews in the Kingdom of Valencia: Denunciation and social Betrayal in Late 15th century Xàtiva

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Barrio, Juan Antonio
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‘Saben moltes coses contra molts convessos de Xàtiva e de València’. Converted Jews in the Kingdom of Valencia: Denunciation and social Betrayal in Late 15th century Xàtiva.
Imago temporis: medium Aevum, 2016, núm. 10, p. 245-265.
https://doi.org/10.21001/itma.2016.10.10.
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The article analyses the mechanisms of denunciation used in the early years of
operation of the Royal Inquisition court of Valencia in the late 15th century. Our study
of the testimony given by a group of old Christians who denounced various Jewish
converts in the city of Xàtiva has enabled us to reconstruct how denunciation took
place, and the development of the climate of social betrayal which was encouraged
by the inquisitorial authorities. We have identified the informants —old Christians—
and those denounced —Jewish converts— and their respective socio-professional
occupations. The informants were extremely intolerant of their Jewish converso
neighbours, whose attitudes they monitored. They used the new horizontal
mechanisms for social control, implemented, disseminated and encouraged by the
inquisitorial authorities, which encouraged old Christians to observe, monitor and
report dissident behaviour and practices among Jewish converts in Valencia.
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