Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other HereticsRichard L. Kagan, Abigail Dyer JHU Press, 2011 M09 15 - 248 páginas On the first day of Francisco de San Antonio's trial before the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo in 1625, his interrogators asked him about his parentage. His real name, he stated, was Abram Rubén, and he had been born in Fez of Jewish parents. How then, Inquisitors wanted to know, had he become a Christian convert? Why had a Hebrew alphabet been found in his possession? And what was his business at the Court in Madrid? "He was asked," according to his dossier, "for the story of his life." His response, more than ten folios long, is one of the many involuntary autobiographies created by the logic of the Inquisition that today provide rich insights into both the personal lives of the persecuted and the social, cultural, and political realities of the age. In the first edition of Inquisitorial Inquiries, Richard L. Kagan and Abigail Dyer collected, translated, and annotated six of these autobiographies from a diverse group of prisoners. Now they add the fascinating life story of another victim of the Inquisition: Esteban Jamete, a French sculptor accused of being a Protestant. Each of the autobiographies has been selected to represent a particular political or social issue, while at the same time raising more intimate questions about the religious, sexual, political, or national identities of the prisoners. Among them are a politically incendiary prophet, a self-proclaimed hermaphrodite, and a morisco, an Islamic convert to Catholicism. |
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... audience chamber and ordered him to sit down. Before him were three judges, or inquisitors, seated behind a long table. San Antonio knew little about these judges, not even their names. However, he was almost certainly aware that their ...
... (audience, or hearing). Even then, inquisitors did not reveal to the accused the reasons for the arrest. Instead, as ... audience, inquisitors ended the audience by “warning” them to make a “full and complete confession,” adding that the ...
... audiences that inquisitors had the power to have the accused tortured in order to hasten a full confession. These tortures ranged from forcing the prisoner to swallow huge amounts of water to the use of such instruments as the potro or ...
... audience, one much larger than the panel of inquisitors for whom these brief lives were originally designed. FURTHER READING As recommended background reading on the European context of early modern Spain, see Evan Cameron, ed. Early ...
... audience room a blind man who was a prisoner there. Maldonado appeared with this man before his Reverence, who, presiding, asked the prisoner his name. 1 “My name is Luis de la Ysla, and I am a New Christian of Jewish origin, age thirty ...
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A Protestant Threat? Esteban Jamete | |
ElenaEleno | |
The SoldierProphet | |
Francisco de San Antonio | |
Diego Díaz | |
Doña Blanca Méndez de Rivera | |
Glossary | |
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Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics Richard L. Kagan,Abigail Dyer Vista previa limitada - 2011 |
Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics Richard L. Kagan,Abigail Dyer Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics Richard L. Kagan,Abigail Dyer Vista previa limitada - 2004 |