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A wave of anti-Semitic attacks originating in Seville produced the first major wave of Jewish conversions to Christianity, the first community of conversos.
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These riots represent the first struggle to establish purity-of-blood policies; Pero Sarmiento drew up decree called the Sentencia-Estatuto that made converted Jews and descendants permanently ineligible for public offices.
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United the crowns of Castile and Aragon and made a "double monarchy" possible in Iberia; known as the Catholic Kings who unified Spain (31)
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By establishing the Inquisition, the Catholic Kings increased royal authority by strongly associating the Crown of Castile with the Christian cause.
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Victory for Christians -- resuscitated a crusading spirit, bolstered the popularity of Catholic Kings, increased prestige of monarchy; coincided with Inquisition's first decade of persecutions, made Spain's rulers less tolerant of religious minorities (esp Jews).
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Suprema was the only governmental agency that had jurisdiction over the entire Spanish empire; viewed by many as Spain's first proto-national institution; the crown determined the inquisitors not the pope.
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Jews blamed for crypto-Judaism among conversos, decree ordered Spanish Jews to leave the region; major spike in conversions; all Jews who did not convert to Catholicism within four months had to leave Castile and Aragon; ability to claim purity of blood depended on if they converted before or after this date as it implied if they did so voluntarily or not
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Burning of millions of Islamic texts led to an uprising in Grenada
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Expelled later in Aragon because Islamic community protected by nobility, which relied on it for a large part of income (36)
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Statutes began to hinge as much on maternal as on paternal ancestry (break from gendered conceptions of lineage); coupled with the elimination of limits on how far back stains could be traced
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Demonstrates the more rigorous incorporation of procedure due to heightened fears that fraudulent documents were being submitted.
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Toledo important religious center, encouraged other institutions religious and secular, to pass own requirements of limpieza de sangre (44)
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These groups seen as a threat to unity of the faith (46); retain purity requirements due to their emergence
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Antriaristocratic book published by Cardinal Francisco Mendoza y Bobadilla to Philip II claiming that all of the Spanish nobility had tainted blood
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Sparked by Philip II's reissuing of orders to prohibit all sorts of practices that were supposed to be associated with Islam (51)
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Nobody could bypass this process. Moreover, proof was required that ones spouse was a verified Old Christian. (64)
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Demonstrates the probanza process as a "social weapon" meant to protect the status of elites and control upward mobility
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Philip IV declares that candidates who had direct decendents who had their purity certified on three separate occasions were not require to forgo the process themselves (70)
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