Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World /

"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 functio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Zamora Calvo, María Jesús (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Violence against.
Witch hunting.
Spanish colonies.
Inquisition.
Femmes > Violence envers > Amerique latine > Histoire.
Femmes > Violence envers > Espagne > Histoire.
Chasse aux sorcieres > Amerique latine > Histoire.
Chasse aux sorcieres > Espagne > Histoire.
Inquisition > Amerique latine.
Inquisition > Espagne.
Women > Violence against > Latin America > History.
Women > Violence against > Spain > History.
Witch hunting > Latin America > History.
Witch hunting > Spain > History.
Inquisition > Latin America.
Inquisition > Spain.
Spain.
Latin America.
Espagne > Colonies.
Espagne > Histoire religieuse.
Spain > Colonies.
Spain > Church history.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Defeated demons, battered women : the bodies of diabolical possession / Beatriz Moncó Rebollo
  • The "fallen women" of Francisco Rizi's Profanación de un crucifijo, o Familia de berejes azotando un crucifijo / Sonia Perez-Villanueva
  • Catalina Mateo : portrait of a witch in sixteenth-century Castile / María Jesús Zamora Calvo
  • Toward an inquisitorial history of binding spells or ligatures : the process against María de la Conceptión, a Gypsy in New Spain / Alberto Ortiz
  • Maleficata impotentia : from malleus maleficarum to the eighteenth-century enchantresses of New Spain / Cecila López-Ridaura
  • Midwives, folk medicine, and magic in early modern Mexico / Robin Ann Rice
  • Self-denunciation before the Inquisition : the case of Felipa Olaeta in eighteenth-century New Spain / Yadira Muguía
  • The personification of Erysipelas in two eighteenth-century spells from New Spain / Claudia Carranza Vera and Jair Antonio Acevedo López
  • The cultural construct of the witch : Inquisitorial discourses / Graciela Rodríguez Castañón
  • Marital pains, heterodox cures : alternative economies of sorcery and witchcraft during the Cartagena de Indias Inquisition / Ana María Díaz Burgos.

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