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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... known, evokes the darker side of life—arbitrary justice, racial hatred, and religious persecution, along with images of dreary prisons, torture, and human suffering. Cognizant of these grim realities, we do not pretend to offer a ...
... known as a “good read,” restore to the historical record of early modern Spain the quotidian experiences of a series of individuals whose stories, were it not for their brush with the Inquisition, would have been forgotten or even lost ...
... known simply as the Suprema. Sixteen of these tribunals, each headed by two or three judges assisted by a subaltern staff that included a prosecutor (fiscal) and several secretaries, as well as bailiffs, prison wardens, and other ...
... known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Santo Oficio de la Inquisición). No matter how unusual the case before it, the Holy Office acted in accordance with a consistent set of internal procedures that applied equally to all of its ...
... known as cristianos nuevos, or New Christians, a term that distinguished them from cristianos viejos, or Old Christians, individuals whose lineage was supposedly free from either Jewish or Muslim blood. Some of these conversions were ...
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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 |