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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Linda Martz. A Network of Converso Families in Early Modern Toledo: Assimilating a Minority. (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 461. $72.50.
The history of minorities in early modern Spain generally utilizes Inquisition records, but it is invariably more complex than the study of Inquisition documents alone reveals. Linda Martz begins her study of the conversos of Toledo by considering Inquisition activity in that city. Having devoted an initial chapter to this topic—the Inquisition in Toledo, after all, processed over 6,000 conversos in a fifteen-year period—she moves beyond it to her real interest: those who survived this period and were assimilated into Christian Toledo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.	1
In a region where baptismal records appear as early as 1499, Martz follows several elite converso families, and the documentation she provides for an extended period is impressive. Working with archival material from Simancas, as well as the provincial archive in Toledo and smaller parish archives, she is able to trace lineages and determine the fate of children and grandchildren, not to mention cousins, step-children, and the like. This could not have been a simple task, particularly since, as Martz herself tells us, many converso families investigated by the Inquisition deliberately changed their surnames afterward and avoided mentioning ancestors, or invented alternative ones. Moreover, conversos, in their effort to advance themselves socially, were apt to take the more prestigious parent's surname, even if it were from the maternal side.	. . .

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