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Useful terminology for navigating the JEMMAW site as well as the history of the Inquisition in the seventeenth-century Spanish and Portuguese Atlantic.[1] 


[1] See: Seymour Liebman, A Guide to Jewish References in the Mexican Colonial Era, 1521-1821 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964), 113-114; Nathan Wachtel, The Faith of Remembrance: Marrano Labrynths, trans. Nikki Halpern (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), 285-287; Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, A Nation Upon the Open Sea: Portugal’s Atlantic Diasopra and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 181-182; Karoline P. Cook, Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), 191-194; Miriam Bodian, Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), 201-202.

[2] Wachtel, 286.


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