Between Court and Confessional: The Politics of Spanish Inquisitors by
Explores the lives of Spanish inquisitors, closely examining the careers and writings of five sixteenth- and seventeenth-century inquisitors.
The Inquisition: A Global History by
Examines the Inquisition's activities in Spain, Italy, Portugal and overseas Iberian colonies. Argues that the Inquisition played a crucial role in the Catholic Reformation, imposing its own members in papal elections, reshaping ecclesiastical hierarchy, defining orthodoxy, controlling information and knowledge, influencing politics and framing daily life.
The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision by
In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period.
Gendered Crime and Punishment: Women and/in the Hispanic Inquisitions by
In Gendered Crime and Punishment, Stacey Schlau mines the Inquisitional archive of Spain and Latin America in order to uncover the words and actions of accused women as transcribed in the trial records of the Holy Office.
The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain by
Looks at the responses of women to the culture of control in seventeenth-century Spain. In this new history of Inquisitional Spain, Lisa Vollendorf incorporates convent texts, Inquisition cases, biographies, and women's literature to reveal a previously unrecognized boom in women's writing between 1580 and 1700.
Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World by
Looks at 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.
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