The long journey of Gracia Mendes /

"Gracia Mendes was a sixteenth-century entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest women in Europe, who, while a practicing Christian, remained for much of her life a secret Jew." "The biography examines her rise to power in the face of immense obstacles - political, religious, economic, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Birnbaum, Marianna D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Nasi, Gracia, > approximately 1510-1569.
Nasi, Gracia, > approximately 1510-1569
Nasi, Gracia.
1500-1599
Crypto-Jews > Iberian Peninsula > Biography.
Jews > Portugal > Biography.
Sephardim > Portugal > Biography.
Jewish women > Portugal > Biography.
Jews > Europe > Social conditions > 16th century.
Jews > Europe > Economic conditions > 16th century.
Cryptojuifs > Ibérique, Péninsule > Biographies.
Juifs > Portugal > Biographies.
Séfarades > Portugal > Biographies.
Juives > Portugal > Biographies.
Juifs > Europe > Conditions sociales > 16e siècle.
Juifs > Europe > Conditions économiques > 16e siècle.
HISTORY.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Crypto-Jews
Ethnic relations
Jewish women
Jews
Jews > Economic conditions
Jews > Social conditions
Sephardim
Europe > Ethnic relations.
Europe > Relations interethniques.
Europe > Iberian Peninsula
Europe
Portugal
Marranen.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the family
  • A short history of the conversos
  • Life in sixteenth-century Antwerp
  • Gracia in Venice
  • Gracia and Jewish patronage in sixteenth-century Ferrara
  • In business with Ragusa
  • The Ottoman Empire and the Jews.

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