Literacy and Education among Judeo-<i>conversa</i>Women in Castile, Portugal, and Amsterdam, 1560–1700

Nalle, Sara T.

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“…Scholars have argued that Jewish women's and later Conversas' level of education in late medieval Castilian and Aragonese societies was limited (Blasco Martínez 1997;Klein 2006;Nalle 2016). Given that most of these women were illiterate, and hence, unable to leave written testimonies of their experiences, the ways in which their beliefs, religious practices and attitudes were perceived by others, either by their coreligionists or by hostile observers, is an indicator of their visibility within documentary evidence.…”

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Silencing the Voices: Finding Conversas in the Inquisitorial Records

Arsić

2023

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The past decades have generated much discussion by archivists and historians surrounding the claim that archives and written documents on women’s lives cannot be examined separately since archives play crucial roles within the conceptual framework of women’s history. By researching women’s experiences preserved in archives, it has been demonstrated that their voices were frequently obscured within archival data. In order to reconstruct the lives of women in history, this paper will attempt to address quantitative, qualitative and methodological challenges that arise when power silences the voices of Judeo-Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) from the early modern crowns of Castile and Aragon. By unearthing Conversas’ religious experiences from written sources, mainly inquisitorial dossiers, and by applying theoretical framework defined by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, the author suggests that Conversas’ voices were silenced at four stages: first, when the sources were written; second, when these documents were assembled; third, when narratives were created; and finally, when history was written by historians.

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Silencing the Voices: Finding Conversas in the Inquisitorial Records

Arsić

2023

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Literacy and Education among Judeo-conversaWomen in Castile, Portugal, and Amsterdam, 1560–1700

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Silencing the Voices: Finding Conversas in the Inquisitorial Records

Silencing the Voices: Finding Conversas in the Inquisitorial Records

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