No, I'm just wary of the whole category; the "Black Legend" is nationalist and sectarian defensiveness.
Netanyahu's position is that the New Christians, by and large, had been Christian for generations; their ancestors had assimilated when the Reconquest had dominated the peninsula - about two centuries before. The crypto-Judaism which the Inquisition found was partly real, but enormously exaggerated to justify the confiscations. Most New Christians were about as Judaic as the Old Christians were worshippers of Visigothic or Celtiberian gods. Whether this is the case is -er- controversial.
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Date: 2011-11-25 09:36 am (UTC)No, I'm just wary of the whole category; the "Black Legend" is nationalist and sectarian defensiveness.
Netanyahu's position is that the New Christians, by and large, had been Christian for generations; their ancestors had assimilated when the Reconquest had dominated the peninsula - about two centuries before. The crypto-Judaism which the Inquisition found was partly real, but enormously exaggerated to justify the confiscations. Most New Christians were about as Judaic as the Old Christians were worshippers of Visigothic or Celtiberian gods. Whether this is the case is -er- controversial.