The Marrano Factory

The Marrano Factory

The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians 1536-1765

by António José Saraiva

402 pages· 2001· ISBN 9789004120808
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First published in Portuguese in 1969, this is the only work by Antonio Jose Saraiva available in English and the only single-volume history devoted primarily to the working of the Portuguese Inquisition, a most lucid and compact survey. "The Marrano Factory" argues that the Portuguese Inquisition s stated intention of extirpating heresies and purifying Portuguese Catholicism was a monumental hoax; the true purpose of the Holy Office was the fabrication rather than the destruction of "Judaizers."

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