The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614, Lu Ann Homza, Book

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This collection of previously untranslated court documents, testimonials, and letters portrays the Spanish Inquisition in vivid detail, offering fresh perspectives on such topics as the Inquisition's persecution of Jews and Muslims, the role of women in Spanish religious culture, the Inquisition's construction and persecution of witchcraft, daily life inside an Inquisition prison, and the relationship between the Inquisition and the Spanish monarchy. Headnotes introduce the selections, and a general introduction provides historical, political, and legal context. A map and index are included.

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This collection of previously untranslated court documents, testimonials, and letters portrays the Spanish Inquisition in vivid detail, offering fresh perspectives on such topics as the Inquisition's persecution of Jews and Muslims, the role of women in Spanish religious culture, the Inquisition's construction and persecution of witchcraft, daily life inside an Inquisition prison, and the relationship between the Inquisition and the Spanish monarchy. Headnotes introduce the selections, and a general introduction provides historical, political, and legal context. A map and index are included.

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Benjamin Ehlers
With very few exceptions the rich inquisitorial sources collected here have, until now, been available only to specialists with a knowledge of early modern Spanish. The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614 fills a gaping hole in the English-language literature, making these previously inaccessible documents available to a much wider reading public. . . . With a strong introduction and supporting material for each document, this source reader provides a wealth of material for classes on late medieval or modern Europe; Spain and Latin America; Western civilization; or the history of Western religions. This reader will also be valuable to seminars on subjects such as witchcraft, early modern legal history, and women's history. (University of Georgia)

Wietse de Boer
Despite the enormous and still growing attention to, and interest in, Inquisition history, there was an almost complete lack of source materials in English. This collection helps fill that gap, and Professor Homza seems to have done so in expert fashion. (Department of History, Miami University)

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ISBN: 0872207943
ISBN-13: 9780872207943
Format: Textbook Paperback, 272pp
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Pub. Date: April 2006
Edition Number: 1
Sales Rank: 295,567

Table of Contents

	The first years of the Inquisition	1
Document 1	Recollections of the reign of the Catholic kings, written by Bachiller Andres Bernaldez	1
Document 2	Establishing the Inquisition in the kingdom of Aragon	9
	The Inquisition's first targets : Judaizing Conversos in Castile, 1484-1513	13
Document 3	Inquisition proceedings against Isabel, wife of Bachiller Lope de la Higuera, 1484	13
Document 4	Inquisition trial of Pedro de Villegas, 1483-1484	17
Document 5	Inquisition trial of Marina Gonzalez, 1494	27
Document 6	Inquisition trial of Maria Gonzalez, wife of Pedro de Villarreal : Ciudad Real, 1511-1513	50
	Codification	61
Document 7	Gaspar Isidro de Arguello : instructions of the holy office of the Inquisition, handled summarily, both old and new part I	61
	The Alumbrados in Castile, 1525-1532	80
Document 8	1525 Inquisition edict on the Alumbrados	80
Document 9	Letter from Friar Francisco Ortiz to Inquisitor-General Alonso Manrique, April 9, 1529, composed inside the Toledo tribunal of the Inquisition	93
Document 10	Testimony by Francisca Hernandez, June 2, 1531	103
Document 11	Summary of the prosecutor's accusation against Antonio de Medrano : Toledo tribunal	108
Document 12	Excerpts from the trial of Marie de Cazalla, 1532-1534	112
	Pondering witchcraft	153
Document 13	Deliberations on the reality and heresy of witchcraft, 1526	153
	The Inquisition at mid-century : blasphemers, hypocrites, Protestants	164
Document 14	Trial of Catalina Diaz, wife of Juan Becervil, for blasphemy : penanced May 17, 1543	164
Document 15	Trial of Diego de Almodovar, penanced for blasphemy, 1545	166
Document 16	Heresy and false sanctity of Magdalena de la Cruz, 1544-1546	168
Document 17	Letters from the Suprema, Inquisitor-General Fernando de Veldes, and Philip II on Protestants in the 1550s	176
Document 18	Documents pertaining to the trial of Archbishop Bartolome Carranza	194
Document 19	Prohibited books	212
	Structure, process, routine	221
Document 20	Gasper Isidro de Arguello : instructions of the holy office of the Inquisition, handled summarily, both old and new part II : the "new instructions" of 1561	221
Document 21	Excerpts from the visitation records of the prison in the tribunal of Cordoba, 1569	232
	The Moriscos	238
Document 22	Auto de Fe celebrated in Granada, March 18, 1571	238
Document 23	Letter from the Granada tribunal to the Suprema, December 12, 1574	247
	The Inquisition in the last decades of the sixteenth century	248
Document 24	Scandalous propositions : Friar Juan Bautista de Cubas, Monastery of San Lorenzo el Real : penanced, 1581	248
Document 25	Sentence of Catalina Munoz for false sanctity, 1588	252
Document 26	Auto de Fe celebrated in Granada, May 27, 1593	257

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