In one of the few articles dedicated to the topic of conversion in the Castilian chivalric romance, Whitenack surveys Hispanic chivalric texts published between the years 1490 and 1524. She finds that enforcing baptism on the principal warriors and the army en masse is a pattern found in a wide range of medieval (pre-1490) works (15). She also states that fifteenth- and sixteenthcentury Castilian translations of chivalric fiction, such as Historia de los nobles cavalleros Oliveros de Castilla y Artús de Algarbe, differ little from the medieval romances, where conversion is ‘narrated perfunctorily and with little attempt to justify or explain [it]’ (17). According to Whitenack, in the translations and medieval romances, methods of conversion were based on power and intimidation and included:

However, one translation not taken into consideration, Reinaldos de Montalván, follows many of the patterns the critic notes for indigenous Peninsular romances and, if considered in Whitenack's study, might have altered her conclusions somewhat, for while it clearly demonstrates many of the characteristics that she describes for medieval works and translations, it offers other, more detailed reasons for and methods of conversion.