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A Glossary of the Spanish Inquisition
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Powerful Magic: Sorcery, Magic, Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition as Catalysts for Women's Power
… worked together to popularize these beliefs. The Spanish Inquisition offered additional enforcement as it monitored society's adherence to prescribed gender roles. Despite the formulaic expectations of the female sex, women continued to carve out a place for themselves in their communities. This …
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Behold These English Dogs!: Englishmen in the Atlantic World Before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, 1560-1630
This thesis asserts that the Spanish Inquisition treated Englishmen more severely than any other group. The inquisitorial persecution of Englishmen, especially by the Tribunal in New Spain (México), set off a chain reaction of events that infuriated Queen Elizabeth I of England and brought about …
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France, Spain, and the Persecution of Protestant Heresy: A Study in Contrast
… of this thesis is a comparative analysis of Spanish and French persecution of Protestants, mainly focusing on the years 1550-1650. This thesis argues that the Spanish Inquisition was the determining factor in Spain's efficient and relatively bloodless suppression of Protestantism. In …
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Inquisitorial Women: Unconventional Readings of the Spanish Reformation
This dissertation argues that early modern Spanish women engaged theological discourse as apt inquisitors. This project is the first collective analysis of the luteranas, women tried by the Spanish Inquisition as "Lutherans." I examine the manuscript confessions of luteranas tried by the …
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Performing Theaters of Power: The Holy Office of the Inquisition's General Autos de fe in Spain and Spanish America and the Visual and Physical Representation of Inquisitorial Power, 1481-1736
… had both illustrative and didactic purposes, the Spanish Inquisition announced the sentences and punishments of those convicted heretics it sentenced and condemned. Although most previous scholars have identified these autos de fe as ostensibly a form of religious ritual, it is my contention that …
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The Quixote code: Reading between the lines of the Cervantes novel
… context of its historical moment—a time when the Spanish Inquisition was at its most catechizing, and had increased the scope of its sites to include Protestant Christians along with its traditional fare of Muslims and Jews in its campaign of forcible conversions to Catholicism. During this era, …
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El mundo visionario en la España moderna: manifestaciones y problemas. Una aproximación desde la tratadística y la Inquisición
In this doctoral thesis we analyse the visionary world as one of the keys in the social and cultural dynamics of modern Spain. In this sense, we propose to study the visionary realities that are inserted within a Christian confessional society, such as the Hispanic one, influenced by the …