Entre las sociedades ibéricas y la diáspora judía: Los Pinto y los Ribeiro en los siglos XVI y XVII

The article reconstructs the history of two converso families of the 16th and 17th centuries. These Portuguese New Christians established themselves in the Spanish dominions of the Monarquia hispanica, where they played an important economic role. Some of them finally returned to judaism and abandoned the Iberian world, while others integrated themselves into Iberian societies. The diversity of the developments of the different branches show the extraordinary complexity of Iberian conversos' social reality in the 16th and 17th centuries, a complexity that contradicts any precipitate and simplistic interpretation.