Contents: Introduction; The conversos: a theological approach; Why the Spanish Inquisition?; Religious faith and doubt in late medieval Spain: Soria, circa 1450-1500; Debate: religious faith, doubt and atheism, with a contribution by C. John Sommerville; Male and female religious experience among Spanish New Christians, 1450-1500; The popes, the Inquisition and Jewish converts in Spain, 1440-1515; Jews and conversos in the reign of Soria and AlmazA!n: departures and returns; The beginnings of a scientific theory of race? Spain, 1450-1600; Elijah and the Inquisition: messianic prophesy among conversos in Spain, c. 1500; Trial of an Inquisitor: the dismissal of Diego RodrA-guez Lucero, Inquisitor of CA (3)rdoba, in 1508; Bishop Juan Arias DA!vila of Segovia: 'Judaizer' or reformer?; Christian mission in the Kingdom of Granada, 1492-1568; Jewish testimony to the Spanish Inquisition: Teruel, 1484-87; Religion, constitutionalism and the Inquisition in Teruel, 1484-85; Oligarchy and merchant capitalism in Lower Andalusia under the Catholic kings: the case of CA (3)rdoba and Jerez de la Frontera; Politics and ideology in late Medieval CA (3)rdoba; 'Development' and 'underdevelopment' in the Western Mediterranean: the case of CA (3)rdoba and its region in the late 15th and early 16th centuries; Conversos, Judaism and the language of monarchy in 15th-century Castille; The Judeoconversos in the urban life of CA (3)rdoba, 1450-1520; Index.