Other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Making of an Empire

Jews, Conversos, and the Inquisition (1x9)

Ημερομηνία προβολής: Μαρ 20, 2002

The horrific pogroms of 1391 were followed by unprecedented levels of Jewish conversion to Christianity. Upper and middle-class Conversos blended comfortably into society, while the lower classes remained segregated at the bottom. The Spanish Inquisition, designed to ferret out "secret" Jews, sought to remove the last visible traces of Judaism from Iberia.