Agents of Orthodoxy : honor, status, and the Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, Brazil /

The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wadsworth, James E., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007.
Temas:
Inquisition > Brazil > Pernambuco.
Inquisition > Brésil > Pernambouc.
RELIGION > History.
Inquisition
Inquisição > Pernambuco.
Pernambuco (Brazil) > Church history.
Pernambouc (Brésil) > Histoire religieuse.
Brazil > Pernambuco
Church history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In the name of the Holy office
  • The inquisition at work in Pernambuco
  • Qualifying for office : procedures and costs
  • Qualifying for office : the problems of honor
  • Genealogical fraud and political reform
  • Nobility of blood
  • Corporate privileges
  • Corporate institutions : brotherhoods and militias
  • Impostors, abusers, and obstructers
  • Decay and decline.

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