Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other

Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics

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 RubÃ©n, 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.
Country USA
Brand Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781421401966
ReleaseDate 2011-09-15
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781421401966

Country	USA
Brand	Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer	Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781421401966
ReleaseDate	2011-09-15
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781421401966

Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics

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