Overview
"In Inquisitorial Inquiries, Richard Kagan and Abigail Dyer have collected, translated, and annotated six of these autobiographies from a diverse group of prisoners, five tried in Europe and one in Mexico. 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 identity of the prisoners. Among them are a politically incendiary prophet; a self-proclaimed hermaphrodite charged with having violated the sacrament of marriage for having married a woman; a female convert to Catholicism who betrayed her Jewish origins by serving as a rabbi and preaching heretical doctrine in the New World; and a morisco, an Islamic convert to Catholicism who claimed to have been circumcised against his will. In their introduction, Kagan and Dyer stress the ""collaborative"" nature of these texts, stressing the coercion involved and the purpose of the interrogations that solicited them. Making these invaluable primary sources available for the first time in English, Inquisitorial Inquiries will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of early moder"
Full Product Details
Author: Richard L. Kagan ,
Abigail Dyer
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition: Annotated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9780801879234
ISBN 10: 080187923
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 10 May 2004
Recommended Age: From 17
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Replaced By: 9781421401966
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
These case histories, culled from the voluminous records of inquisitorial proceedings, introduce us to a fascinating group of characters. Their testimonies, carefully shaped and edited for modern readers, will be a welcome addition to course readings on society and religion in early modern Europe. --Carla Rahn Phillips, Mellon Senior Fellow, 2003, The John Carter Brown Library
"""These case histories, culled from the voluminous records of inquisitorial proceedings, introduce us to a fascinating group of characters. Their testimonies, carefully shaped and edited for modern readers, will be a welcome addition to course readings on society and religion in early modern Europe.""--Carla Rahn Phillips, Mellon Senior Fellow, 2003, The John Carter Brown Library"
Author Information
Richard L. Kagan is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University and the author or editor of six previous books, including Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793. Abigail Dyer received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is an independent scholar living in New York.
