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The Lima Inquisition : the plight of crypto-Jews in seventeenth-century Peru / Ana E. Schaposchnik.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780299306137
  • 0299306135
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lima Inquisition.DDC classification:
  • 272/.2098525 23
LOC classification:
  • BX1740.P5 S33 2015
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Heresy and Inquisition in the Iberian World -- The Trial as a Setting for Confession and Repentance -- A Cobbler and a Merchant -- A Community under Trial in Colonial Peru -- The Inner World of the Lima Prisons -- The Plight of the Condemned.
Summary: Established 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1065349

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Heresy and Inquisition in the Iberian World -- The Trial as a Setting for Confession and Repentance -- A Cobbler and a Merchant -- A Community under Trial in Colonial Peru -- The Inner World of the Lima Prisons -- The Plight of the Condemned.

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Established 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.