2026-06-07T05:52:16Zhttps://uvadoc.uva.es/oai/requestoai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/748912025-02-12T21:13:15Zcom_10324_1162com_10324_931com_10324_894col_10324_1322
Bueno Sánchez, María Luisa
2025-02-12T13:04:20Z
2025-02-12T13:04:20Z
2020
Marisa Bueno (2020) Are you still my wife? Conversion to Christianity and its legal effects on pre-existing marriages and their offspring in late medieval Castile (1480–1502), Mediterranean Historical Review, 35:1, 43-61, DOI: 10.1080/09518967.2020.1744070
https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74891
10.1080/09518967.2020.1744070
This article examines the legal and sociological consequences of conversion to
Christianity by Muslim and Jewish couples in medieval Castile at the end of the
fifteenth century, focusing on the application of legal prescription in legal praxis. The
material summarized and analysed sheds light on how Jews and Muslims dealt with
conversion to Christianity and the problems it brought to daily life. Broadening the
discussion, this article looks at other conversions to Judaism and Islam in order to
establish a comparative perspective and show the problems of legal miscegenation at
the end of the fifteenth century in Castile. The paper is based on a dozen royal decrees
granted by the Royal Council in response to petitions and preserved in the Archivo
General of Simancas, as well as various Inquisitorial records. It answers three basic
questions: what happens when only one spouse in the couple has converted; who
should educate the children; and what happens when the marriage has been contracted
but has not been consummated?
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Medierranean Historical Rewiew
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Historia
Are you still my wife? Conversion to Christianity and its legal effects on pre-existing marriages and their offspring in late medieval Castile (1480–1502)
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