El problema converso. Una aproximación historiográfica (1998-2008)

Abstract

The historiographical approach to the convert problem raises some difficultuies. This is due as much to the interest that the mater has aroused during his long career, as to his great controversy which often transcends the limits of scientific history; so it has got to be one of the questions which have attracted more attention of the historians, specialists and the erudite public in general. All this has givenand still gives-rise an important bibliographical production, which, whith regard to the period between 1998 and 2008, we have tried to select and review according the great variables. This are related as much to the facts, as to the men and the controversy which confronted the Jews converts with the ancient Christians durin the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance an whose consequences, no doubt, deeply marked the historical happenings of modern Spain.