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Articles discuss encounters with the Spanish Inquisition, the Converso influence on Spanish literature, the backlash against Moriscos after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks and the resentment of "Old Christians" toward the new ones that made assimilation difficult if not impossible.
Still, by 1590 the converso community was well-established in the metropolis.
For Wagschal, the tale represents the old married man as a Jewish converso, a non-Christian Other.
 
 
 
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