Francois Soyer

Work

University of New England
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Associate Professor

Australia

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University of New England
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Senior Lecturer

Australia

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University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Late Medieval and Early Modern History

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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University of Adelaide
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ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Australia

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University of Southampton
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Lecturer

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Leverhulme Trust
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Study Abroad Studentship Award Holder

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Education

University of Cambridge
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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PhD

University of Cambridge
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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MPhil

University of Saint Andrews
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Medieval History

Publications

Tears and Contrition in Early Modern Iberian Inquisitorial Trials (1560-1610): A Preliminary Study

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Emotions: History, Culture, Society

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Francois Soyer, "Authoritative Sources: Hagiography, Local History, and the Antisemitic Child Murder Libel in Early Modern Spain." Antisemitism Studies 9, no. 1 (2025): 71-100.

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Antisemitism Studies

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The Blood Libel in Medieval Antisemitism

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The Blood Libel in Medieval Antisemitism

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ARC Humanities Press

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KatherineAron‐Beller: Christian Images and their Jewish Desecrators. The History of an Allegation, 400–1700. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024; pp. 426

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Journal of Religious History

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A Hermafrodita e a Inquisição Portuguesa. O caso que abalou o Santo Ofício.

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Bertrand Editora

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How a Factual Error became a Historical Fact: The 1182 ‘ritual murder’ in Zaragoza in Antisemitic Propaganda and Modern Scholarship

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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The ‘Catalan Hermaphrodite’ and the Inquisition.

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Bloomsbury

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How a Factual Error became a Historical Fact: The 1182 ‘ritual murder’ in Zaragoza in Antisemitic Propaganda and Modern Scholarship

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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Tears and Contrition in Early Modern Iberian Inquisitorial Trials (1560–1610): A Preliminary Study

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Emotions: History, Culture, Society

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Tears and Contrition in Early Modern Iberian Inquisitorial Trials (1560–1610): A Preliminary Study

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Emotions: History, Culture, Society

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A Expulsão dos Judeus e Muçulmanos: Uma Exigência Matrimonial de D. Manuel I?

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Atualizar a História: Uma Nova Visão Sobre o Passado de Portugal

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A Expulsão dos Judeus e Muçulmanos: Uma Exigência Matrimonial de D. Manuel I?

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Atualizar a história: uma nova visão sobre o passado de Portugal

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Emotions in Europe 1517-1914: Transformations, 1789-1914

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Jews and the child murder libel in the medieval Iberian Peninsula: European trends and Iberian peculiarities

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Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies

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Jews and the child murder libel in the medieval Iberian Peninsula: European trends and Iberian peculiarities

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Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies

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Jews and the child murder libel in the medieval Iberian Peninsula: European trends and Iberian peculiarities

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Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies

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Emotions in Europe 1517-1914: Explorations 1603-1714

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Emotions in Europe, 1517-1914: Reformations, 1517-1602

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Emotions in Europe, 1517-1914: Revolutions, 1714-1789

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Emotions in Europe 1517–1914: Volume I: Reformations,1517-1602

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Emotions in Europe 1517–1914: Volume III: Revolutions, 1714-1789

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From Medieval Ritual Murder to Modern Blood Libel: The Narrative of “Saint” Dominguito De Val in Spain

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Antisemitism Studies

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From Medieval Ritual Murder to Modern Blood Libel: The Narrative of "Saint" Dominguito de Val in Spain

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Antisemitism Studies

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An Emperor on the Move: Charles V

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The Court Historian

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After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration among Iberian Jews by Susan L. Einbinder (review)

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Parergon

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Combinando Judeophobia e Iatrophobia: Para uma compreensão do elemento médico da teoria antissemita da conspiração no mundo ibérico moderno

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As inquisições modernas: poder político, religião e sociedade entre a Europa e o Atlântico

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Emotion and the popularization of anti-Jewish discourse in early modern Europe

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Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies

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The Blood Libel in Illustrated Books and Comics for Children in Twentieth-Century Spain

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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The Blood Libel in Illustrated Books and Comics for Children in Twentieth-Century Spain

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred

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Medieval Antisemitism?

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Medieval Antisemitism?

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Amsterdam University Press

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Emotion and the popularization of anti-Jewish discourse in early modern Europe

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Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies

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Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World.

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Brill

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The Inquisition and the Repression of Erotic and Pornographic Imagery in Early Nineteenth-Century Madrid

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History: The Journal of the Historical Association

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Glaube, Kultur und Angst Antimuslimischer Rassismus im Spanien der Frühen Neuzeit und im Europa des 21. Jahrhunderts – ein Vergleich

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"‘Secret Synagogues’: Fact and Fantasy from Portugal to Macau"

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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The Inquisition and the Repression of Erotic and Pornographic Imagery in Early Nineteenth-Century Madrid

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History

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Ritualised Public Performance, Emotional Narratives and the Enactment of Power: The Public Baptism of a Muslim in Eighteenth-Century Barcelona

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Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200-1920: Family, State and Church

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Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Conspiracy Theory of Medical Murder in Early Modern Spain and Portugal

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Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story?

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Prohibiting Sexual Relations across Religious Boundaries in Fifteenth-Century Portugal: Legal Severity and Practical Pragmatism

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Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Law (5th - 15th centuries)

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Prohibiting Sexual Relations Across Religious Boundaries in Fifteenth-Century Portugal: Severity and Pragmatism in Legal Theory and Practice

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Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Law (5th - 15th Centuries)

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Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Conspiracy Theory of Medical Murder in Early Modern Spain and Portugal

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Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story?

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The Passion of Christ in the Church of San Cristobal de Rapaz: An example of Medieval Anti-Jewish Iconography in Colonial Peru?

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eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies

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"The Passion of Christ in the Church of San Cristóbal de Rapaz: An example of Medieval Anti-Jewish Iconography in Colonial Peru?"

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eHumanista/Conversos

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“All one in Christ Jesus”? Spiritual closeness, genealogical determinism and the conversion of Jews in Alonso de Espina’s Fortalitium Fidei

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Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

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The Recycling of an Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory into an anti-Morisco one in Early Modern Spain: The Myth of El Vengador, the Serial-Killer Doctor

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eHumanista Journal of Iberian Studies/Conversos

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The Recycling of an Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory into an anti-Morisco one in Early Modern Spain: The Myth of El Vengador, the Serial-Killer Doctor.

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eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies

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"All one in Christ Jesus"? Spiritual closeness, genealogical determinism and the conversion of Jews in Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium Fidei

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Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

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The Public Baptism of Muslims in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Forging Communal Identity through Collective Emotional Display

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Journal of Religious History

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Androgyny and the Fear of Demonic Intervention in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula: Ecclesiastical and Popular Responses

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Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800

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Inquisition, Art, and Self-Censorship in the Early Modern Spanish Church, 1563–1834

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The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes

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Enforcing Religious Repression in an Age of World Empires: Assessing the Global Reach of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions

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History

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Enforcing Religious Repression in an Age of World Empires: Assessing the Global Reach of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions

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History

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Inquisition, art, and self-censorship in the early modern Spanish church, 1563–1834

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The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes

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The Public Baptism of Muslims in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Forging Communal Identity through Collective Emotional Display

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Journal of Religious History

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The anti-semitic conspiracy theory in sixteenth-century spain and portugal and the origins of the carta de los judíos de constantinopla: New evidence | La teoría conspirativa antisemita en españa y portugal a fines del siglo xvi y los orígenes de la carta de los judíos de constantinopla: Nueva evidencia.— este artículo

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Sefarad

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The Inquisitorial Trial of a Cross-Dressing Lesbian: Reactions and Responses to Female Homosexuality in 18th-Century Portugal

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Journal of Homosexuality

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The Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory in Sixteenth-Century Spain and Portugal and the Origins of the Carta de los Judios de Constantinopla: New Evidence

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Sefarad

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Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire: Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contra Judios (1674)

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Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire: Francisco de Torrejoncillo and the Centinela contra Judíos (1674)

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Brill

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Manuel I of Portugal and the end of the toleration of Islam in Castile: Marriage diplomacy, propaganda, and Portuguese imperialism in renaissance Europe, 1495-1505

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Journal of Early Modern History

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Manuel I of Portugal and the End of the Toleration of Islam in Castile: Marriage Diplomacy, Propaganda, and Portuguese Imperialism in Renaissance Europe, 1495-1505

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Journal of Early Modern History

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The Inquisitorial Trial of a Cross-Dressing Lesbian: Reactions and Responses to Female Homosexuality in 18th-Century Portugal

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Journal of Homosexuality

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Faith, culture and fear: comparing Islamophobia in early modern Spain and twenty-first-century Europe

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Ethnic and Racial Studies

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A Perseguicao aos Judeus e Muculmanos de Portugal - D Manuel I e o Fim da Tolerancia Religiosa (1496-1497)

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A Perseguição aos Judeus e Muçulmanos de Portugal - D. Manuel I e o Fim da Tolerância Religiosa (1496-1497)

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Edições 70

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Faith, culture and fear: Comparing Islamophobia in early modern Spain and twenty-first-century Europe

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Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Living in fear of revenge: Religious minorities and the right to bear arms in fifteenth-century Portugal

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Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud

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Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms

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Ambiguous gender in early modern Spain and Portugal: inquisitors, doctors and the transgression of gender norms.

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E. J. Brill

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'It is not possible to be both a Jew and a Christian': Converso religious identity and the inquisitorial trial of Custodio Nunes (1604-5)

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Mediterranean Historical Review

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Un Medico entre las Garras de la Inquisicion: el proceso de Simon de Castro (1728-1730)

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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‘It is not possible to be both a Jew and a Christian’: Converso religious identity and the inquisitorial trial of Custodio Nunes (1604–5)

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Mediterranean Historical Review

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Un Médico entre las Garras de la Inquisición: el proceso de Simón de Castro (1728-1730)

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Cardenos de Estudos Sefarditas

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El comercio de los esclavos musulmanes en el Portugal medieval: rutas, precios y papel económico

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Espacio, tiempo y forma. Serie III, Historia medieval

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El comercio de los esclavos musulmanes en el Portugal medieval: rutas y papel economico

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Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval

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Living in Fear of Revenge: Religious Minorities and the Right to Bear Arms in Fifteenth-Century Portugal

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Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud

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Living in fear of revenge: Religious minorities and the right to bear arms in fifteenth-century Portugal

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Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud

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King Joao II of Portugal “O Principe Perfeito” and the Jews (1481-1495)

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Sefarad

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King João II of Portugal "O príncipe perfeito" and the Jews (1481-1495)

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Sefarad

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The Inquisition and the ‘Priestess of Zafra’: hermaphroditism and gender transgression in seventeenth-century Spain

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nali della Classe di Lettere e Filosofia. Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy)

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Le Royaume du Portugal et l’Expulsion des Juifs d’Espagne en 1492

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Minorias étnico-religiosas na Península Ibérica

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The Expulsion of the Muslims from Portugal (1496–1497)

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Al-Masaq

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King Manuel I and the expulsion of the Castilian Conversos and Muslims from Portugal in 1497: new perspectives

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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King Manuel I and the expulsion of the Castilian Conversos and Muslims from Portugal in 1497: new perspectives.

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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Le Royaume du Portugal et l’Expulsion des Juifs d’Espagne en 1492

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Minorias etnico-religiosas na Peninsula Iberica: Período medieval e moderno

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Muslim slaves and freedmen in medieval Portugal

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Al-Qantara

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The Massacre of the New Christians of Lisbon in 1506: a new eyewitness account

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal: King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496-7)

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Muslim Slaves and Freedmen in Medieval Portugal

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Al-Qantara

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The Massacre of the New Christians of Lisbon in 1506: A New Eyewitness Account

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal

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Medieval Mediterranean

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Muslim Freedmen in León, Castile and Portugal (1100–1300)

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Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean

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An example of collaboration between the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions: The Trials of the Converso Diogo Ramos and his Family (1680-1683)

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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An example of collaboration between the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions: The Trials of the Converso Diogo Ramos and his Family (1680-1683)

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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An example of collaboration between the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions: The Trials of the Converso Diogo Ramos and his Family (1680-1683)

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Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas

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Muslim Freedmen in Leon, Castile and Portugal (1100–1300)

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Al-Masaq

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Francois Soyer