Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics

摘要: On the first day of Francisco de San Antonio's trial before Spanish Inquisition in Toledo 1625, his interrogators asked him about parentage. His real name, he stated, was Abram Ruben, and had been born Fez Jewish parents. How then, Inquisitors wanted to know, become a Christian convert? Why Hebrew alphabet found possession? And what business at Court Madrid? "He asked," according dossier, "for story life." response, more than ten folios long, is one many involuntary autobiographies created by logic that today provides rich insights into both personal lives persecuted social, cultural, political realities age. In Inquisitorial Inquiries, Richard Kagan Abigail Dyer have collected, translated, annotated six these from diverse group prisoners, five tried Europe Mexico. Each has selected represent particular or social issue, while same time raising intimate questions religious, sexual, political, national identity prisoners. Among them are politically incendiary prophet; self-proclaimed hermaphrodite charged with having violated sacrament marriage for married woman; female convert Catholicism who betrayed her origins serving as rabbi preaching heretical doctrine New World; morisco, an Islamic claimed circumcised against will. their introduction, stress "collaborative" nature texts, stressing coercion involved purpose interrogations solicited them. Making invaluable primary sources available English, Inquiries will be interest students scholars fields early modern Europe, colonial Latin America, gender studies, religious history.