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Inquisitorial Inquiries

- Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics
Engelsk Hardback

Inquisitorial Inquiries

- Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics
Engelsk Hardback
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On the first day of Francisco de San Antonio''s trial before the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo in 1625, his interrogators asked him about his parentage. His real name, he stated, was Abram Rubén, and he had been born in Fez of Jewish parents. How then, Inquisitors wanted to know, had he become a Christian convert? Why had a Hebrew alphabet been found in his possession? And what was his business at the Court in Madrid? "He was asked," according to his dossier, "for the story of his life." His response, more than ten folios long, is one of the many involuntary autobiographies created by the logic of the Inquisition that today provide rich insights into both the personal lives of the persecuted and the social, cultural, and political realities of the age.

In the first edition of Inquisitorial Inquiries, Richard L. Kagan and Abigail Dyer collected, translated, and annotated six of these autobiographies from a diverse group of prisoners. Now they add the fascinating life story of another victim of the Inquisition: Esteban Jamete, a French sculptor accused of being a Protestant. 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 identities of the prisoners. Among them are a politically incendiary prophet, a self-proclaimed hermaphrodite, and a morisco, an Islamic convert to Catholicism.

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On the first day of Francisco de San Antonio''s trial before the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo in 1625, his interrogators asked him about his parentage. His real name, he stated, was Abram Rubén, and he had been born in Fez of Jewish parents. How then, Inquisitors wanted to know, had he become a Christian convert? Why had a Hebrew alphabet been found in his possession? And what was his business at the Court in Madrid? "He was asked," according to his dossier, "for the story of his life." His response, more than ten folios long, is one of the many involuntary autobiographies created by the logic of the Inquisition that today provide rich insights into both the personal lives of the persecuted and the social, cultural, and political realities of the age.

In the first edition of Inquisitorial Inquiries, Richard L. Kagan and Abigail Dyer collected, translated, and annotated six of these autobiographies from a diverse group of prisoners. Now they add the fascinating life story of another victim of the Inquisition: Esteban Jamete, a French sculptor accused of being a Protestant. 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 identities of the prisoners. Among them are a politically incendiary prophet, a self-proclaimed hermaphrodite, and a morisco, an Islamic convert to Catholicism.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 248
ISBN-13: 9781421403403
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1421403404
Kategori: Religionshistorie
Udg. Dato: 10 nov 2011
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 235mm
Højde: 161mm
Forlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Oplagsdato: 10 nov 2011
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Kategori Religionshistorie

ISBN-13 9781421403403

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 248

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 235mm

Højde 161mm

Udg. Dato 10 nov 2011

Oplagsdato 10 nov 2011

Forlag Johns Hopkins University Press