El fenómeno de los cristianos nuevos en Iberoamérica

Abstract

The artiele deals with the religious persecution in the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish-Gothic govemment before the Arab Conquest. Sorne years later, after the Spanish Reconquest the formation of new religious order in Spain tried to made new converse in Spain and other European countries. The new anti-Jewish spirits established the formal Holy Office of the Inquisition in Spain in 1478, by the Catholic Kings, Isabel and Fernando. Finally they ordered the expulsion of Jews and other heretics from their Monarchy. But this act did not made Spain free of Jews. Berween the first conquerors and settlers always has been someone who was from Jewish origino It is known that many Jews carne to New World with Columbus, suspicious by himselfto bc from Jews origino Many arrived with other expeditions or as individual traders to look for a new life far from Europe. But the situation has becn different because the Primitive Inquisition was established in New Spain very early, with the arrival ofthe Dominican Order. Their first victim was the conqueror Hemando Alonso, who was publicly bumed in 1528. In sorne other islands the Dominican Fryers began their activities already in 1523. The formal establishment ofthe Holy Office ofthe Inquisition in Spanish America was in 1571 and has be en abolished in 1820.