Los orígenes del problema converso
Autor: Eloy Benito Ruano
Número de Páginas: 228
The first "purity of blood" statutes, impeding the access of Conversos to public office, were promulgated in 1449 by the city council of Toledo as part of a rebellion against the tax policy of King Pedro II and his Converso tax collectors. Discusses these statutes, which were known as the "Sentencia-Estatuto de Pero Sarmiento", as Sarmiento was the leader of the rebels. In the same year the legal advisor of the city, Marcos García de Mora, wrote a political, juridical, and theological justification of the council's decision, "Memorial del Bachiller Marquillos de Mazarambroz", in which he accused the Conversos of being Judaizers and heretics. Despite the king's opposition and the Vatican's condemnation, the statutes spread throughout Spain, first in guilds and brotherhoods and later in the highest civil and official circles. In Toledo, the hostility toward the Conversos led to a pogrom in 1467. Pp. 85-92 and 103-133 contain the text of the statutes and the "Memorial" of García de Mora.