Still, his investigations had yielded unexpected, interesting results. Just a week ago he had discovered that Queen Isabella, in the fifteenth century, proclaimed bloodstain laws (limpiezas de sangre) that prevented converted Jews from holding influential positions in the government and the military. She was wise enough to understand that the Jewish malignancy did not emanate from religious ideation—it was in the blood itself. And she put it into law! Hats off to Queen Isabella! He now revised his opinion of her. Previously, he had always connected her only with the discovery of America—that
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