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Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics
Richard L Kagan
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Description for Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics
Paperback. Among them are a politically incendiary prophet, a self-proclaimed hermaphrodite, and a morisco, an Islamic convert to Catholicism. Editor(s): Kagan, Richard L.; Dyer, Abigail. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3J; HBJD; HBLH; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
On the first day of Francisco de San Antonio's trial before the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo in 1625, his interrogators asked him about his parentage. His real name, he stated, was Abram Ruben, and he had been born in Fez of Jewish parents. How then, Inquisitors wanted to know, had he become a Christian convert? Why had a Hebrew alphabet been found in his possession? And what was his business at the Court in Madrid? "He was asked," according to his dossier, "for the story of his life." His response, more than ten folios long, is one of the many ... Read more
On the first day of Francisco de San Antonio's trial before the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo in 1625, his interrogators asked him about his parentage. His real name, he stated, was Abram Ruben, and he had been born in Fez of Jewish parents. How then, Inquisitors wanted to know, had he become a Christian convert? Why had a Hebrew alphabet been found in his possession? And what was his business at the Court in Madrid? "He was asked," according to his dossier, "for the story of his life." His response, more than ten folios long, is one of the many ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421401966
SKU
V9781421401966
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About Richard L Kagan
Richard L. Kagan is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University and author or editor of a number of books, including Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800, both also published by Johns Hopkins. Abigail Dyer ... Read more
Reviews for Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics
"A highly readable account... provides a very useful look into the lives of individuals whose activities brought them before the Inquisition." (Sixteenth Century Journal) "The authors have edited and translated the original documents with skill and sensitivity and accompanied each testimony with useful explanatory notes." (History)"