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A Glossary of the Spanish Inquisition
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Blood and Fire: The Inquisition of Mary Tudor, 1555-1558
… inquisitors, it appears that a brief formal inquisition occurred during Mary Tudor's reign in England.
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Powerful Magic: Sorcery, Magic, Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition as Catalysts for Women's Power
… 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 paper …
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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
… 1550-1650. This thesis argues that the Spanish Inquisition was the determining factor in Spain's efficient and relatively bloodless suppression of Protestantism. In comparison, France's failure to institute an inquisition resulted in political destabilization and violence, inefficient …
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Inquisitorial Women: Unconventional Readings of the Spanish Reformation
… of the luteranas, women tried by the Spanish Inquisition as "Lutherans." I examine the manuscript confessions of luteranas tried by the Inquisition of Toledo from 1534-1565 to demonstrate that conflicting discourses of gender and heresy evolve within Inquisition proceedings throughout 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
… 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 the …
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The Scandalous Case of Isabel de la Cruz Mejía: Healing, Ethnicity, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
… easily be denounced to the Holy Office of the Inquisition. The case of Isabel de la Cruz Mejía demonstrates the ways in which the Inquisition was utilized by different segments of society for personal reasons that were in turn connected to larger colonial issues such as class, race, gender, and …
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Mujeres de apocalipsis
… Latin-American Culture. The study is based on inquisition records of Beatas: pious woman, commonly accused of heretical behaviour. Women who gained freedom and a partial share of power through religion imaginary. A citical approach to the reading of her life and imageneries shows the apperance …
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A Model of Individual Demand for Unionism
… seeming stagnation of an historical trend makes inquisition into current individual motives for union preference a relevant area of research, as aggregate union growth is a reflection of a composite of individual behavior.
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The fellowship of St.Diogo : new Christian judaisers in Coimbra in the early 17th century
… to have been sentenced as judaisers by the Inquisition. His own father kept the Law of Moses, and taught it to all his children, without the knowledge of his wife, an Old Christian of noble lineage. His concern for the situation of the New Christians in Portugal eventually made him build up …
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Mujeres de mal vivir: Gender, religion, and the politics of power in colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750
… and supernatural beliefs. I base my analysis on Inquisition cases prosecuted in Santiago de Guatemala from 1650 to 1750, supplemented with civil and ecclesiastical correspondence, city council records, and other sources. The examination of women's practices of healing, sorcery, sexual witchcraft …
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The design of intelligent cookware
… context-aware cookware that aids its users. An inquisition on the chemical content of different food and the appropriate electronics for measuring it was done. An instrument, with embedded sensors and intelligence and in the form of a spatula, was created base on the result of the research, and …
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Masters of difference : Creolization and the Jewish presence in Cabo Verde, 1497-1672
… escape for cristãos novos fleeing the Inquisition, Cabo Verde lacked effective control by the metropolis, and was a place where an autonomous Creole identity could develop in which malleable worldviews were key. The thesis highlights the pan-Atlantic nature of the cristão novo diaspora …
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Giordano Bruno and the history of science
… for Bruno’s execution at the hands of the Roman Inquisition in 1600. One school of thought, the “martyr to science” interpretation, insists that Bruno died as the direct result of his advocacy of Copernicanism. The opposing school rejects this assessment and names a variety of unorthodox …
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La auto-modelación y el sujeto femenino en La Celestina de Fermando de Rojas y en La Farsa de la Costança de Cristóbal de Castillejo
… Rojas, a converso living in Spain during the Inquisition, expresses his views in a veiled manner by criticizing and finding fault with Christian values. On the other hand, Castillejo, as in the case of Rojas, attacks the corruption of the Catholic Church and ridicules the sacrament of …
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Motivations behind individuals' engagement with urban, community-building nonprofits on Facebook : a uses and gratifications approach
… U&G has not been used to examine this narrow inquisition in nonprofit research. An urban, community-building nonprofit is defined as a 501(c)(3) that is based in a major city in the United States, and the nonprofit's work must be oriented towards helping the community that it is based in. The …
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Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico
… black religious knowledge. My work draws from Inquisition cases, ecclesiastical records, and confraternity constitutions to show how the Catholic Church shaped by the Tridentine reforms of the early modern era offered a space for multigenerational blacks to pursue personal relationships with …
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Food and Religion in the English and Italian Reformations, c. 1560 - c. 1640
… books from households, guilds, and churches, and Inquisition records); whilst material culture spans all three sections.
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The <i>Imaginaire</i> of Capital Punishment in England, France, and Italy, 1250-1350
… imaginaires crafted by the capitouls and the Inquisition in Toulouse, each attempting to legitimise their use of capital punishment. The fifth chapter discusses the de-hanging of criminals in Norwich, and the executions of criminals left in the hands of the King of England as custodian of …
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