ISBN:
9780807175613
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 214 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
New Hispanisms
Series Statement:
cultural and literary studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
272.20946
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1800
;
Frau
;
Hexenverfolgung
;
Inquisition
;
Hispanoamerika
;
Spanien
;
Inquisition / Spain
;
Inquisition / Latin America
;
Witch hunting / History
;
Women / Violence against / History
;
Spain / Church history
;
Spain / Colonies
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Spanien
;
Hispanoamerika
;
Inquisition
;
Frau
;
Hexenverfolgung
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
Abstract:
Defeated demons, battered women : the bodies of diabolical possession / Beatriz Moncó Rebollo -- The "fallen women" of Francisco Rizi's Profanación de un crucifijo, o Familia de berejes azotando un crucifijo / Sonia Pérez-Villanueva -- Catalina Mateo : portrait of a witch in sixteenth-century Castile / María Jesús Zamora Calvo -- Toward an inquisitorial history of binding spells or ligatures : the process against María de la Conceptión, a Gypsy in New Spain / Alberto Ortiz
Abstract:
"Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World offers a balanced portrayal of the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. This collection considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards. Ten essays present portraits of women who, under accusations as diverse as witchcraft, bigamy, false beatitude, and heresy, faced the Spanish and New World Inquisitions to account for their lives. Each essay draws on the documentary record of trials, confessions, letters, diaries, and other primary materials. Focusing on individual cases of women brought before the Inquisition, the authors study their subjects' social status, particularize their motivations, determine the characteristics of their prosecution, and deduce the reasons used to justify violence against them. The volume argues that at the core of these cases, with their subjection of women to imprisonment, interrogation, and judgment, stands the specter of contempt, humiliation, silencing, and denial of feminine selfhood. The contributors include specialists in the early modern period from multiple disciplines, encompassing literature, language, translation, literary theory, history, law, iconography, and anthropology. By considering both the women themselves and the Inquisition as an institution, this collection works to uncover stories, lives, and cultural practices that for centuries have dwelled in obscurity"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
