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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... prisons, torture, and human suffering. Cognizant of these grim realities, we do not pretend to offer a revisionist ... prisoners who had been brought before them to recite the stories of their lives. The resulting autobiographies ...
... prisons. A bailiff ushered the prisoner into the tribunal's 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 ...
... prisoner was a judaizante dogmatizador—a dogmatizing Judaizer—and guilty of apostasy, a major heresy. Armed with this knowledge, they began questioning him as follows: Why do you think you have been arrested? What is your name? Your age ...
... prisoners' own life experiences and the particular context—in this case, a trial chamber—in which they were composed. Confessional ideas also governed their content, inasmuch ... prisoner before them as well as against other heretics yet to.
... prisoner's presumed guilt. What set the Inquisition apart from these other tribunals was its insistence on secret ... prisoners into providing them with a “truthful” confession that would reveal aspects of their lives that they might ...
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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 |