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Gendered crime and punishment : women and/in the Hispanic Inquisitions / by Stacey Schlau.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; 49.Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (vii, 196 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004237353
  • 9004237356
  • 1283854783
  • 9781283854788
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gendered crime and punishment.DDC classification:
  • 272/.2 23
LOC classification:
  • KBR128 .S35 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction : toward a gendered approach to understanding the Hispanic Inquisitions -- Betwixt and between: Judaizing women face the Inquisition -- Dangerous spiritualities: beatas, illuminism, and false religiosity -- Devil with a brown or black dress on: holy women as ventriloquists of Satan -- Bewitching acts: cures, love potions, and spells -- Entre cuerpo y alma: female sexuality, out of control? -- Epilogue.
Summary: "In Gendered Crime and Punishment, Stacey Schlau mines the Inquisitional archive of Spain and Latin America in order to uncover the words and actions of accused women as transcribed in the trial records of the Holy Office. Although these are mediated texts, filtered through the formulae and norms of the religious institution that recorded them, much can be learned about the prisoners' individual aspirations and experiences, as well as about the rigidly hierarchical, yet highly multicultural societies in which they lived. Chapters on Judaizing, false visions, possession by the Devil, witchcraft, and sexuality utilize case studies to unpack hegemonic ideologies and technologies, as well as individual responses. Filling in a gap in our understanding of the dynamics of gender in the early modern/colonial period, as it relates to women and gender, the book contributes to the growing scholarship in Inquisition cultural studies"--Provided by publisher.
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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)503958

"Formerly Medieval Iberian Peninsula"--Series title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.

Print version record.

Introduction : toward a gendered approach to understanding the Hispanic Inquisitions -- Betwixt and between: Judaizing women face the Inquisition -- Dangerous spiritualities: beatas, illuminism, and false religiosity -- Devil with a brown or black dress on: holy women as ventriloquists of Satan -- Bewitching acts: cures, love potions, and spells -- Entre cuerpo y alma: female sexuality, out of control? -- Epilogue.

"In Gendered Crime and Punishment, Stacey Schlau mines the Inquisitional archive of Spain and Latin America in order to uncover the words and actions of accused women as transcribed in the trial records of the Holy Office. Although these are mediated texts, filtered through the formulae and norms of the religious institution that recorded them, much can be learned about the prisoners' individual aspirations and experiences, as well as about the rigidly hierarchical, yet highly multicultural societies in which they lived. Chapters on Judaizing, false visions, possession by the Devil, witchcraft, and sexuality utilize case studies to unpack hegemonic ideologies and technologies, as well as individual responses. Filling in a gap in our understanding of the dynamics of gender in the early modern/colonial period, as it relates to women and gender, the book contributes to the growing scholarship in Inquisition cultural studies"--Provided by publisher.

English.