The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal: King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance, 1496-7 (Brill's Paperback Collection) - Hardcover

Soyer, François

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004162623 ISBN 13: 9789004162624

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2007

Synopsis

This book challenges prevalent assumptions concerning the persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal in 1496-7. It pieces together the developments that led to the events of 1496-7 and presents a detailed reconstruction of the persecution itself.

About this title

About the Author:

François Soyer, Ph.D. (2006) in History, University of Cambridge, is a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Evora. He has published on religious minorities and the Inquisition in Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Portugal.

Review:

"a thoroughly researched work that makes use of a variety of sources in several languages, including Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese. I found it generally persuasive and certainly an important contribution to the fields of Portuguese, Jewish and Islamic history", Ariel Hessayon review in Reviews in History (review no. 797), URL: http: //www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/hessayona.html

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9004162623
• ISBN 13: 9789004162624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 325