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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... called inquisitions, that the papacy created for the purpose of extirpating heresy from within the confines of Christendom. The name Inquisition derives from inquisitio, a particular form of juridical procedure that evolved out of ...
... had to answer these questions; but by the sixteenth century, genealogical queries, as noted above, formed part of most important inquisitorial trials. By 1561 the Inquisition's trial procedures, called “instructions,”
... called “instructions,” included these specific requirements: [Inquisitors are to have accused heretics] state their genealogy as expansively as possible, beginning with their fathers and grandfathers, together with all the collateral ...
... called an “act of faith,” or auto de fe. An auto was a public gathering in which the “penitents,” as the Inquisition called them, paraded before a gathered crowd, wearing garments known as sanbenitos (smocks bearing an.
... called an abjuración de levi (literally, abjuring or forswearing minor heresies). These individuals generally could get off with as little as a whipping and a public shaming, although the Inquisition often required these penitents to ...
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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 |