Devociones religiosas colectivas y conversos en Almagro: la Cofradía de Santa María de Mirabuenos (ss. XV-XVII)

Abstract

The present article studies the local religiosity in Almagro, capital of the Orden de Calatrava in La Mancha, during the transition since middle age to the modern age. For that, we study a brotherhood which, until now, it has been unnoticed in the historiography: it was dedicated to Santa Maria de Mirabuenos. It is the best example of integration of the minority converted in the society of the old christians until, last of XVI century, it was introduced the role of purity of blood and won the segregation social religious in Castilla.