In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to being prohibited from membership in it.
Author(s): Robert Aleksander Maryks
Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 318
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
List of Illustrations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Chapter One Th e Historical Context of Purity-of-Blood......Page 37
Sentencia-Estatuto of Pero de Sarmiento (1449)......Page 38
Alonso de Cartagena and Alonso de Oropesa......Page 40
Purity-of-blood statutes of Archbishop Silíceo (1547)......Page 65
Defensio Toletani Statuti of Diego de Simancas (1573)......Page 67
Chapter Two Early Jesuit Pro-converso Policy (1540–72)......Page 77
Ignatius of Loyola as a “deep spiritual Semite”......Page 78
Jerónimo Nadal’s opposition to the purity-of-blood legislation......Page 112
Th e converso triumvirate: the election of Diego Laínez......Page 126
Francisco de Borja’s infi nite love of conversos......Page 136
Chapter Three Discrimination Against Jesuits of Jewish......Page 153
Italo-Portuguese anti-converso lobby at General Congregation 3......Page 156
Everard Mercurian’s “house cleansing”......Page 159
Memorialistas’ revolt against Rome......Page 161
Benedetto Palmio’s converso-phobic memorial......Page 165
Acquaviva’s discriminatory measures......Page 179
Chapter Four Jesuit Opposition to the Purity-of-blood......Page 195
Antonio Possevino......Page 198
Diego de Guzmán......Page 218
Pedro de Ribadeneyra......Page 223
García Girón de Alarcón......Page 226
Juan de Mariana......Page 248
Conclusion......Page 251
APPENDIX I......Page 255
Appendix II......Page 293
Bibliography......Page 297
Index......Page 307
