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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... never have been written without the men and women whose lives we recount here or without the inquisitorial scribes who prepared the transcripts upon which we have relied. We would also like to acknowledge the directors and staff of ...
... never closed any brothels or arrested cohabiting couples—than in enforcing recognition of the Catholic doctrine that sexual union outside the bonds of matrimony was, in fact, a sinful act. Yet these cases, however mundane, kept the ...
... never to reveal that they had spoken with inquisitors, and inquisitors did not inform prospective defendants that they were under suspicion. If the depositions lent credence to the initial denunciation, the judges put the case before a ...
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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 |