Books by Markus Schreiber
München, 2013
Sie waren eine Familie iberischer Marranen: Die López de Fonseca hatten jüdische Wurzeln, galten ... more Sie waren eine Familie iberischer Marranen: Die López de Fonseca hatten jüdische Wurzeln, galten aber aufgrund ihrer Taufe als Christen und lebten im Schatten der Inquisition, wurden sie doch verdächtigt, heimlich dem verbotenen Glauben der Vorväter anzuhängen. Markus Schreiber erzählt ihre bewegte Geschichte, die sich über sieben Generationen spannt und den Leser vom Portugal der Renaissance über das Spanien des Goldenen Zeitalters bis in das koloniale Hispanoamerika und nach Italien führt. Auf dieser Zeitreise vom späten 15. bis in das ausgehende 17. Jahrhundert wird das erstaunliche Überleben einer Minderheit deutlich, die sich zwischen Judentum und Christentum, zwischen Selbstbehauptung und Anpassung bewegte – ein Spannungsfeld, aus dem neue, weit in die Zukunft weisende Lebensentwürfe erwachsen konnten …
Together with Gerald Sammet, Stuttgart, 2017
Die «Welt der Karten» verknüpft moderne Kartografie mit dem Blick auf den Globus von vor Hunderte... more Die «Welt der Karten» verknüpft moderne Kartografie mit dem Blick auf den Globus von vor Hunderten von Jahren. Geografisch geordnet erscheinen neben den modernen, digital erstellten Karten (Maßstab: 1:1,4 Millionen) historische Kartenblätter unterschiedlichster Herkunft und Epochen. So trifft die Karte von heute auf ihr Pendant von gestern. Dieses Konzept bietet – in Verbindung mit den Texten – auf einzigartige Weise räumliche und zeitliche Orientierung und ermöglicht interessante Vergleiche. Gezeigt werden neben berühmten Meisterwerken auch bislang weniger zugängliche Schätze der Kartenkunst.
München, 2022
125 Jahre Münchener Hypothekenbank eG (1896–2021) – History of a remarkable Bavarian mortgage bank.
Papers by Markus Schreiber
Article, 2018
There are many excellent published works on the history of the New Christians in the Iberian Peni... more There are many excellent published works on the history of the New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula. However, nearly all studies are restricted to a Spanish or Portuguese perspective. To the few exceptions belong the publications of Israël S. Révah, whose pioneering research aptly overcame territorial limits. Considering the importance of migration in Jewish and converso history, a transnational approach is essential to capture certain realities of this past. Based on scholarly literature and archival research, this article attempts to give an overview of the developments in Spain and Portugal in order to examine the connections that in the 16th and 17th centuries existed between the New Christian minorities of both countries.
Saeculum. Jahrbuch für Universalgeschichte 45, 1994
Il ruolo economico delle minoranze in Europa, secc. XIII–XVIII, ed. Simonetta Cavaciocchi, Firenze (= Publicazioni del’Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica »Francesco Datini«. II: Atti delle Settimane di Studi e Altri Convegni 31), 2000
Historia de la Inquisición en España y América, 3: Temas y problemas, ed. Bartolomé Escandell Bonet, Madrid, 2000
Globalgeschichte / Global History 1, 2023
Using the Lopes family from Mirandela in northeastern Portugal as a case study, the article trace... more Using the Lopes family from Mirandela in northeastern Portugal as a case study, the article traces the migrations of New Christians to Castile and Central America in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In contrast to studies that have focused on the (crypto-)Jewish identity of New Christians, the Lopes family provides striking examples of identification with their new faith. In the city of Santiago de Guatemala and on Central America's Pacific coast, family members prospered as businessmen, indigo planters and physicians, and several of them became clergymen. The geographical distance from Castile, the weakness of the Guatemalan inquisition, and their social ties with the local elite helped family members to assume a new identity as respected Old Christians.
Article, 1994
The article of 1994 supplies some remarkable information on Sephardic settlements in Germany (Ham... more The article of 1994 supplies some remarkable information on Sephardic settlements in Germany (Hamburg, Glückstadt, Emden, Oldenburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Altona, Stade, Danzig). For some reasons, a publication wasn’t possible, nevertheless, it has been made intense use of the text in several publications without asking nor mentioning the author.
Sefarad. Revista de Estudios Hebraicos y Sefardíes 82, 2022
Andrés de Fonseca (1584-c. 1665) spent most of his life in Castile. The New Christian had been ... more Andrés de Fonseca (1584-c. 1665) spent most of his life in Castile. The New Christian had been born in Portugal, at the end of his life, he converted to judaism and died about 1665 in Pisa. Showing common and particular traits as well, the development of Andrés de Fonseca and his relatives reflects the history of the Portuguese New Christians. As so many Jewish converts and their descendents, the family moved be-tween Christianity and Judaism, between integration and migration. At the same time, the biographies of Andrés de Fonseca and his two sons showed an unsusual combina-tion of academic orientation and financial activities. Furthermore, the three developed a remarkable religious and social ambiguity with some extraordinary intellectual con-sequences.
Article, 2014
Abriged version of: Marranen. Eine Familie im Schatten der Inquisition, 1497–1688, München, 2013
Sefarad. Revista de Estudios Hebraicos, Sefardíes y de Oriente Próximo 58, 1998
The article reconstructs the history of two converso families of the 16th and 17th centuries. The... more 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 Monarquía hispánica, where they played an important economic role. Some of them finally returned to Judaism and abandoned the Ibe-rian 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.
Sefarad. Revista de Estudios Hebraicos y Sefardíes 77, 2017
In the 16th and 17th centuries, among Iberian New Christians there can be detected som... more In the 16th and 17th centuries, among Iberian New Christians there can be detected some radical manifestations of religious disruption. Following the research of Yitzhak Baer, Carl Geb-hardt and most notably Israël S. Révah, these phenomena repeatedly have been linked both to late medieval Jewish «averroism» and the Spinozistic philosophy of the 17th cen-tury. However, more perspectives are possible. Here, we would like to present the trends of converso unbelieve with their academic background and in the European context, pay-ing special attention to a group of five New Christian physicians, who, about 1630, to-gether studied at the University of Alcalá de Henares.
Sefarad. Revista de Estudios Hebraicos y Sefardíes 80, 2020
In the middle of the 17th century, the young Spinoza and the physician Juan de Prado met in t... more In the middle of the 17th century, the young Spinoza and the physician Juan de Prado met in the Sephardic community of Amsterdam. Israël S. Révah considered the encounter as the initial spark for a rupture. According to the French scholar, the New Christian Prado decisively influenced the future Dutch philosopher and provoked his shift to heterodoxy. Furthermore, Révah in Iberian Crypto-Judaism saw the origins of the Spinozistic rupture, the more as he discovered that there was a third man involved in the matter. This Juan Piñero, who also had a Jewish background, according to a tes-timony of the time on his part pushed Juan de Prado to heterodoxy. Only recent research allows the partial reconstruction of his extraordinary life, that reflects the intellectual crisis of certain academic circles in 17th-century Spain.
Aschkenas. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden 4, 1994
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