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« Inquisition ! Le mot seul charrie tout un imaginaire de peur, d'obscurantisme, de tortures insoutenables (la « question ») et de bûchers ... Mais qu'était réellement l'Inquisition ? Un tribunal punissant l'hérésie pour préserver l'unité du monde catholique romain. Détenant son pouvoir du pape, qui contrôlait ainsi la régularité de son action, l'« inquisiteur » - du latin inquisitor (« celui qui examine, recherche ») - était d'abord chargé d'instruire des enquêtes. Secondé par les laïcs du district qui signalaient la présence de tel hérétique avéré ou suspect, il devait, dans l'exercice de sa fonction judiciaire, faire preuve d'honnêteté, de prudence, de fermeté certes, mais aussi d'érudition. Par-delà la légende noire héritée de l'historiographie romantique ou anticléricale du XIXe siècle, Marie-France Schmidt se propose de revisiter l'histoire d'une institution controversée qui connut son apogée en Espagne, sous les Rois catholiques. » --

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Jews --- Inquisition --- History --- History --- Italy --- Ethnic relations

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This book contains some of the richest written material in existence for precolonial West Africa with unique insights into daily life in an Afro-Atlantic coastal trade settlement. Presenting the complete translated and annotated text of the Inquisition trial of Crispina Peres, an African woman born in the Guinea-Bissau region, of a Portuguese father and an African mother, it documents the Portuguese Inquisition's religious persecution of Africans on African soil. Set in a slave port in 17th century West Africa, the trial focuses on the worldview of an African woman accused of engaging in African rites and witchcraft, who is imprisoned and brought before Inquisitioners in Lisbon. It highlights her resourcefulness, resilience and spirited defence of her innocence, providing precious details on her life, household, work, health and social and commercial networks in this understudied African region.

Inquisition --- Colonies --- History --- Peres, Crispina --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Guinea-Bissau --- Guinea-Bissau --- History --- Social conditions

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"This book offers a balanced portrayal of the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. This collection considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards. Ten essays present portraits of women who, under accusations as diverse as witchcraft, bigamy, false beatitude, and heresy, faced the Spanish and New World Inquisitions to account for their lives. Each essay draws on the documentary record of trials, confessions, letters, diaries, and other primary materials. Focusing on individual cases of women brought before the Inquisition, the authors study their subjects' social status, particularize their motivations, determine the characteristics of their prosecution, and deduce the reasons used to justify violence against them. The volume argues that at the core of these cases, with their subjection of women to imprisonment, interrogation, and judgment, stands the specter of contempt, humiliation, silencing, and denial of feminine selfhood. The contributors include specialists in the early modern period from multiple disciplines, encompassing literature, language, translation, literary theory, history, law, iconography, and anthropology. By considering both the women themselves and the Inquisition as an institution, this collection works to uncover stories, lives, and cultural practices that for centuries have dwelled in obscurity"--

Inquisition --- Witch hunting --- Women --- History --- Violence against --- Spain --- Church history. --- Colonies.

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Inquisition ! Le mot seul charrie tout un imaginaire de peur, d'obscurantisme, de tortures insoutenables (la « question ») et de bûchers... Mais qu'était réellement l'Inquisition ? Un tribunal punissant l'hérésie pour préserver l'unité du monde catholique romain. Détenant son pouvoir du pape, qui contrôlait ainsi la régularité de son action, l'« inquisiteur » - du latin inquisitor (« celui qui examine, recherche ») - était d'abord chargé d'instruire des enquêtes. Secondé par les laïcs du district qui signalaient la présence de tel hérétique avéré ou suspect, il devait, dans l'exercice de sa fonction judiciaire, faire preuve d'honnêteté, de prudence, de fermeté certes, mais aussi d'érudition. Par-delà la légende noire héritée de l'historiographie romantique ou anticléricale du XIXe siècle, Marie-France Schmidt se propose de revisiter l'histoire d'une institution controversée qui connut son apogée en Espagne, sous les Rois catholiques.

Inquisition --- 262.136.12 --- 262.136.12 Congregatie van het Heilig Officie (en voor de inquisitie) --- Congregatie van het Heilig Officie (en voor de inquisitie)