Guillermina Jasso, a sociology professor at New York University, said Angel was “evocative of the old converso practice of taking on very Christian surnames as a way of survival in a suspicious environment.”
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Converso
Synonyms for "converso" (14 found)
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16 entriesIberian conversosMarrano traditionSephardic conversosbaptized Jewconverso a menudoconverso communityconverso con colegasconverso con el tutorconverso en la conferenciaconverso identityconverso populationconverso sobre metodologíaconverso statuscrypto Jewish practicesmedieval conversonew Christian
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12 entriesconversaconversadoconversamosconversandoconversaronconversasteconversasteisconversosconverséconversómore conversomost converso
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In the Inquisition's terms, both were automatically suspect by the fact that their families were conversos, and they might be seen as emerging from that maelstrom of religious energy released by the religious realignment of Spain in the 1490s.
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