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Doctors, folk medicine and the Inquisition : the repression of magical healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment /
"Inquisition trials for sorcery and witchcraft in Portugal reached a late crescendo (1715 to 1755). This study of those events focuses on the Inquisition's role in prosecuting and discrediting popular healers (called saludadores or curandeiros), who were charged with practicing magical cri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
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| Colección: | Medieval and early modern Iberian world ;
v. 23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Social, political and institutional context
- Ch. 1. Introduction and overview
- Ch. 2. The role of the curandeiro and saludador in early modern Portuguese society
- Ch. 3. Englightenment influences : the movement toward medical reform in eighteenth-century Portugal
- Ch. 4. Monarch and inquisitor general : two personalities who shaped the holy office campaign against popular healers
- Ch. 5. Interconnections : the influence of licensed physicians and surgeons in the inquisition and at court during the reign of Dom Joao V
- pt. II. The repression of magical healing
- Ch. 6. A deliberate policy of oppression : Portuguese inquisition trials against popular healers for magical crimes, circa 1690-1780
- Ch. 7. Case studies : prosecutions of curandeiros and saludadores in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Portugal
- Ch. 8. Punishing magical criminals : mild customs (Brandos Costumes) and social control
- Ch. 9. Demographics and geographic mobility of popular healers prosecuted by the Portuguese inquisition, 1682-1802
- Ch. 10. Conclusions.