Judging Maria de Macedo : A Female Visionary and the Inquisition in Early Modern Portugal /
On February 20, 1665, the Inquisition of Lisbon arrested Maria de Macedo, the wife of a midlevel official of the Portuguese Treasury, after she revealed during a deposition that, since she was ten years old, an enchanted Moor had frequently taken her to a magical castle in the legendary land of wond...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | On February 20, 1665, the Inquisition of Lisbon arrested Maria de Macedo, the wife of a midlevel official of the Portuguese Treasury, after she revealed during a deposition that, since she was ten years old, an enchanted Moor had frequently taken her to a magical castle in the legendary land of wonders known as the Hidden Isle. The island paradise was also the home of Sebastian, the former king of Portugal (1557-1578), who had died in battle in Morocco while on crusade in 1578. His body remained undiscovered, however, and in a grass-roots movement known as Sebastianism, many people in seventee. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (272 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780807138144 |