Reviews
A highly readable account... provides a very useful look into the lives of individuals whose activities brought them before the Inquisition.
Kagan and Dyer have provided a useful service in translating excerpts from inquisitorial documents housed in Spanish and Mexican archives.
Through depositions related to Judaism, Islam, heretical Christianity and sexual deviance, the book effectively addresses many of the ethnic, racial, religious, and social tensions that plagued early modern Spain and its colonies... An excellent resource for the history classroom.
The editors of this volume have performed a useful service for anyone interested in the Inquisition's activities.
The authors have edited and translated the original documents with skill and sensitivity and accompanied each testimony with useful explanatory notes. The resulting autobiographies are of primary importance to historians of the period for what they teach us about prisoners’ lives, their tactics of dissimulation and the power of their testimony which, it might be argued, went as far as to challenge the authority of the Inquisition itself.
Book Details
List of Maps
Preface
Introduction
1. Renegade Jews: Luis de la Ysla
2. A Protestant Threat? Esteban Jamete
3. Sexuality and the Marriage Sacrament: Elena/ Eleno de Céspedes
4. Miguel de Piedrola: The
List of Maps
Preface
Introduction
1. Renegade Jews: Luis de la Ysla
2. A Protestant Threat? Esteban Jamete
3. Sexuality and the Marriage Sacrament: Elena/ Eleno de Céspedes
4. Miguel de Piedrola: The "Soldier-Prophet"
5. The Price of Conversion: Francisco de San Antonio and Mariana de los Reyes
6. A Captive's Tale: Diego Díaz
7. Keeping the Faith: Doña Blanca Méndez de Rivera
Glossary
Index