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86) When religious propriety demanded it, even official Sephardi institutions, such as the Amsterdam dowering society known as Dotar, whose local branches throughout the Diaspora formed an important part of the welfare infrastructure of the "Spanish and Portuguese Hebrew Nation" in the West, went so far as to legitimize its conversa clients in the Iberian Peninsula, who publicly professed Christianity, by more or less imputing to them a Jewish belief in the unity of God.

Becoming Jewish in early modern France: documents on Jewish ... by Graizbord, David / Journal of Social History

While Diana, as a woman, could only participate in religious services and the process of dowering young girls, Francesco became one of the most serious and active of the confratelli over the course of the next decade.

Making a good impression: Diana Mantuana's printmaking career by Lincoln, Evelyn / Renaissance Quarterly

Though always favoring the "respectable poor" with fixed addresses, Orsanmichele's captains adjusted distributions to meet changing circumstances, shifting support early in the fourteenth century from the "voluntary poor" (religious) to families with children as the economy declined, and after the Black Death to dowering women who could facilitate repopulation.

Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence by Peterson, David S. / Renaissance Quarterly

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