Margarita Moreira: amores, amistades, y los grupos de cripto-judíos portugueses en México, siglo XVII

Margarita Moreira was a woman who lived on the margins of the world of Mexico’s crypto Jews during the first half of the seventeenth century.  The essay examines her words, especially the indiscreet comments she made about her love for a man who was a prisoner of the Holy Office.  It is a love story...

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Main Author: Robert J. Ferry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2006-03-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/2043
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Summary:Margarita Moreira was a woman who lived on the margins of the world of Mexico’s crypto Jews during the first half of the seventeenth century.  The essay examines her words, especially the indiscreet comments she made about her love for a man who was a prisoner of the Holy Office.  It is a love story set in the context of the encounter between the Mexican Inquisition, an institution that was then in the process of realizing dramatic changes, and the crypto Jews, who did not, in fact, all respond in the same way to the problem of keeping the secret of their faith.
ISSN:1626-0252