Judeus de Castela em Portugal no final da idade media: Onomástica familiar e mobilidade

Abstract

Using mainly unpublished sources of the royal chancery and Inquisition proceedings the author provides profiles of individuals and their families among a Jewish minority of Spanish origin in Portugal from the restoration of the Avis dynasty (1383) to the forced baptism and the expulsions and forced baptism of the Jews. The first part identifies Spanish-Jewish last names found in the sources as the last names of many Jews could indicate their geographic origin or that of their immediate ancestors. Special attention is given to a selection of these families (Navarro, Menir, Abravanel). In the second part, it is exemplified the mobility of the Jewish immigrants as a consequence of the social and political instability.