"This book centers on two inquisitorial investigations, both of which began in the 1540s. One involved relations of Europeans and Native Americans in the Oaxacan town of Yanhuitlan (in New Spain, today's Mexico). The other involved relations of Moriscos (recent Muslim converts t…
"Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities, in order to demonstrate how heretical presence in cities was used in ecclesiastical, political, and social conflicts between the citie…
"Examines how the Spanish monarchy managed an empire of unprecedented linguistic diversity, making only sporadic efforts to propagate Spanish during the sixteenth century. Challenges the assumption that the pervasiveness of the Spanish language resulted from deliberate linguisti…
'Modern Inquisitions' explores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonise the Andean region, & demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day.
'Modern Inquisitions' explores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonise the Andean region, & demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day.
Trying to understand how "civilized" people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisit…
Trying to understand how "civilized" people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisit…
This dissertation is a study of the Inquisitor events in the Order of Saint Jerome at the end of the fifteenth century. In the year 1485 the first of a series of Inquisitions was established in the Jeronimite chapter of Guadalupe, in Caceres Spain. The names of thirty friars wer…
It is 15th Century Spain and the Inquisition is raging. Countless hapless souls find a torturous death bound to the fiery hell of burning stakes. Though her father is burned as a Jewish heretic, Susanna Diego escapes and gives birth to her daughter, Teresa, at a convent. Her pra…
