Agents of Orthodoxy
Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil
The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this new study, based on extensive archival research, James E. Wadsworth challenges these myths by focusing on the lay and clerical officials who staffed the Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, one of Brazil's oldest, wealthiest, and most populated colonies. He argues that the Inquisition was an integral part of colonial society and that it reflected and…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7425-6965-2
- EAN: 9780742569652
- Produktnummer: 21962898
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'807 KB
Über den Autor
James E. Wadsworth is professor of history at Stonehill College. He is the author of In Defence of the Faith: Joaquim Marques de Araújo, a Comissário in the Age of Inquisitional Decline, Columbus's First Voyage: A History in Documents, and The World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts: James Richards and His Day Book, 1692-1711.
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