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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2003.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.