In the Shadow of the Virgin :Inquisitors, Friars, and Conversos in Guadalupe, Spain

Publication subTitle :Inquisitors, Friars, and Conversos in Guadalupe, Spain

Author: Starr-LeBeau Gretchen  

Publisher: Princeton University Press‎

Publication year: 2018

E-ISBN: 9780691187372

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691139388

Subject: K5 European History

Keyword: 欧洲史

Language: ENG

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On June 11, 1485, in the pilgrimage town of Guadalupe, the Holy Office of the Inquisition executed Alonso de Paredes--a converted Jew who posed an economic and political threat to the town's powerful friars--as a heretic. Wedding engrossing narratives of Paredes and other figures with astute historical analysis, this finely wrought study reconsiders the relationship between religious identity and political authority in late-Medieval and early-modern Spain.


Gretchen Starr-LeBeau concentrates on the Inquisition's handling of conversos (converted Jews and their descendants) in Guadalupe, taking religious identity to be a complex phenomenon that was constantly re-imagined and reconstructed in light of changing personal circumstances and larger events. She demonstrates that the Inquisition reified the ambiguous religious identities of conversos by defining them as devout or (more often) heretical. And she argues that political figures used this definitional power of the Inquisition to control local populations and to increase their own authority.



In the Shadow of the Virgin is unique in pointing out that the power of the Inquisition came from the collective participation of witnesses, accusers, and even sometimes its victims. For the first time, it draws the connection between the malleability of religious identity and the increase in early modern political authority. It shows that, from the earliest days of the modern Spanish Inquisition, the

Chapter

Anti-Jeronymite and Anticonverso Violence in the Mid-Fifteenth Century

CHAPTER TWO: Living in the Shadow of the Virgin

Sabbath and Sunday Observances

Christian and Jewish Dietary Regulations

Life Rituals: Birth, Marriage, and Death

The Acts of Community Life: Holidays, Festivals, and Processions

CHAPTER THREE: Conversos in Christian and Jewish Societies

Converso Connections to Jews

Links between New and Old Christians

Perceptions of Assimilation

Attempts to Slow Assimilation into Christian Society

CHAPTER FOUR: Political Conflicts, Social Upheaval, and Religious Divisions: The Origins of the Guadalupense Inquisition

The Jeronymites and the Establishment of the Spanish Inquisition

The Ecclesiastical Inquisition in Guadalupe in 1462

Prior Diego de París and Changing Conditions in Guadalupe

Converso Functionaries and Resistance to the Friars' Overlordship

Fray Fernando de Ubeda, Converso Traperos, and the Misuse of Power

The Prior's Flection of 1483

CHAPTER FIVE: The Inquisitors' Gaze

The Holy Office in Guadalupe

The Trials

Rendering a Verdict

The Autos de Fe

CHAPTER SIX: Strategies of the Accused

The Trajectory of Resistance

Confronting Family and Friends

Tactics of Desperation

CHAPTER SEVEN: Investigating the Friars

Jeronymite Spirituality in Guadalupe

Conversos in Guadalupe and the Order of Saint Jerome

An Internal Inquisition

New and Old Proconverso Friars

CHAPTER EIGHT: Guadalupe after the Inquisition: Envisioning the Early Modern State in Guadalupe

Guadalupe after the Inquisition

Expulsion from Guadalupe

The Hegemony of the Friars

Guadalupe and the Sacrality of the Early Modern Spanish State

Conclusion

Appendix: The Trial of Juana González, Wife of Lope de Herrera

Index

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