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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... , they are examples that convey not so much lessons to ponder as brief effects whose force fades almost at once. —MICHEL FOUCAULT, Lives of Infamous Men Contents List of Maps Preface Introduction 1 Renegade Jew: Luis.
... their help in transforming what once seemed a farfetched idea about inquisitorial autobiographies into a volume that we hope our readers will both profit from and enjoy. Inquisitorial Inquiries Introduction On 23 November 1624, in the city.
... free from converso taint. Once an Old Christian, always an Old Christian; and by this same logic New Christians were accorded a separate and seemingly immutable social status, one that not even the sacrament of baptism.
... approval, inquisitors dispatched their bailiffs to make an arrest and imprison the accused in a secret Inquisition jail to await the start of her or his trial. Once imprisoned, accused persons could often wait for months, sometimes.
... Once imprisoned, accused persons could often wait for months, sometimes years, before the inquisitors summoned them for an audiencia (audience, or hearing). Even then, inquisitors did not reveal to the accused the reasons for the arrest ...
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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 |