Espacios, miradas y voces femeninasjudeoconversas viudas procesadas por la Inquisición en Aragón (1484-1492)

Abstract

This research analyzes the axiology and the worldview of the Judeoconvert widows indicted by the Inquisition in Aragon in the foundational period, whose marginalization is determined by their condition of women, widows and descendants of Jews. I have consulted the inquisitorial trials which are preserved in various local, national and European archives relating to the district courts of Zaragoza (1484‐92) and Teruel (1484‐86). The most outstanding include: the Provincial Archive of Zaragoza; the Conciliar Seminary Archive of Zaragoza; the National Historical Archive of Madrid; the Archive of the Kingdom of Valencia, the Archive of the Crown of Aragon of Barcelona; National Archives of Paris & the British Library of London. As a result of this field research I have rescued twenty‐four biographies. In the Court of Zaragoza I have identified five hundred individuals, while in Teruel, about eighty indicted individuals with a brief trajectory. Widows prosecuted for Jewish heresy account for 4% of the total. In this universe we would add, the emotional widows whose family converted to Christianity, and women whose husbands were sentenced to the death penalty by the Inquisition. Different categories have been used in the hermeneutical approach: the sociocultural code, gender studies, the ethno‐historical perspective, the narrative of social memory, the constructivist method, cogmotion, semantic analysis and religious codes...