Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth Century
The growth of academic interest in the ‘Iberian Atlantic World’ during the last decade has also witnessed the expansion of scholarship on the presence of, and role played in it by, Judeoconversos (or ‘New Christians’): the descendants of Jews who were converted (often by force) to Christianity in the 14th and 15th centuries. Amongst the most notable works to have appeared in print on this subject have been the collection of edited articles gathered in The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1400–1800, edited by P. Bernardini and N. Fiering; A Nation upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492–1640, authored by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert and the edited articles assembled in Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500–1800, edited by Richard L. Kagan and Philip D. Morgan.(1)