Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewEstablished in Peru in 1570, the Holy Office of the Inquisition operated there until 1820, prosecuting, torturing, and sentencing alleged heretics. Ana Schaposchnik offers a deeply researched history of the Inquisition's tribunal in the capital city of Lima, with a focus on cases of crypto-Judaism—the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing Christianity. Delving into the records of the tribunal, Schaposchnik brings to light the experiences of individuals on both sides of the process. Some prisoners, she discovers, developed a limited degree of agency as they managed to stall trials or mitigate the most extreme punishments. Training her attention on the accusers, Schaposchnik uncovers the agendas of specific inquisitors in bringing the condemned from the dungeons to the 1639 Auto General de Fe ceremony of public penance and execution. Through this fine-grained study of the tribunal's participants, Schaposchnik finds that the Inquisition sought to discipline and shape culture not so much through frequency of trials or number of sentences as through the potency of individual examples. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ana E. SchaposchnikPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9780299313449ISBN 10: 0299313441 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 30 June 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsReveals the details of the Americas' most alarming Inquisitorial crackdown: the 'Great Complicity' and subsequent Auto de Fe of Lima in 1639. Schaposchnik convincingly shows that it was not an aberration or just another Baroque-era spectacle-it was the essence of what the Inquisition was and had been all about, from inception to abolition. -Kris Lane, Tulane University Reveals the details of the Americas' most alarming Inquisitorial crackdown: the 'Great Complicity' and subsequent Auto de Fe of Lima in 1639. Schaposchnik convincingly shows that it was not an aberration or just another Baroque-era spectacle-it was the essence of what the Inquisition was and had been all about, from inception to abolition. -Kris Lane, Tulane University Author InformationAna E. Schaposchnik is an associate professor of history at DePaul University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
