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Limpieza de sangre (Spanish: [limˈpjeθa ðe ˈsaŋɡɾe]), also known as limpeza de sangue (Portuguese: [lĩˈpezɐ ðɨ ˈsɐ̃ɡɨ], Galician: [limˈpeθɐ ðɪ ˈsaŋɡɪ]) or neteja de sang (Catalan: [nəˈtɛʒə ðə ˈsaŋ]), literally 'cleanliness of blood' and meaning 'blood purity', was a racially discriminatory term used in the ...
Limpieza de sangre Statutes and Anti-Semitism [ edit ] Siliceo successfully fought to impose the limpieza de sangre ("purity of blood") statutes on the Archdiocese of Toledo in order to exclude the Conversos , those Spaniards descended from Jews who had converted to Catholicism, from holding official positions within the Church hierarchy.
Purity of Blood (Spanish: Limpieza de sangre) is a 1997 novel by the Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It is the second book in the Captain Alatriste series. [1]
Limpieza de sangre, blood purity laws in Medieval Spain stipulating a social hierarchy based on ancestry; Blood purity, a fictional concept of wizarding ancestry in the Harry Potter series; Pureblood, a term used in COVID-19 anti-vaccine activism to denote people who have not been vaccinated
Southern Historical Association, Latin American and Caribbean Section, article prize, 2004. "The Black Blood of New Spain: Limpieza de Sangre, Racial Violence, and Gendered Power in Early Colonial Mexico," William and Mary Quarterly vol. LXI (July 2004) Conference on Latin American History Mexican History Prize for Genealogical Fictions. (2009)
He was taken in and recognized as the son of the Catholic King due to a long-standing relationship with Luisa de Estrada, daughter of Don Fernando Duque de Estrada y Guzman. [2] Although this has allegedly been refuted by the 1585 limpieza de sangre of his great-grandson, Gobernador Jorge de Alvarado y Villafañe. [citation needed]
Limpieza de sangre affected life for every individual in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, including the degree to exclusion and racial discrimination. When Europe came to colonize the "New World" these ethics of honor and limpieza de sangre implied that those with blood lacking purity to European standards was inferior.
Old Christian (Spanish: cristiano viejo, Portuguese: cristão-velho, Catalan: cristià vell) was a social and law-effective category used in the Iberian Peninsula from the late 15th and early 16th century onwards, to distinguish Portuguese and Spanish people attested as having cleanliness of blood, known as Limpieza de sangre, from the populations categorized as New Christian. [1] '