(Spanish: `converted`), one of the Spanish Jews who adopted the Christian religion after a severe persecution in the late 14th and early 15th ... [2 related articles] Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/137
In Spanish history, a Jew who had converted to Christianity. Despite their conversion, and the fact that many of them rose to positions of power in the 14th and 15th century, conversos and their... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688