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Author Costigan, Lúcia Helena

Title Through cracks in the wall : modern inquisitions and new Christian letrados in the Iberian Atlantic world / by Lúcia Helena Costigan
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 221 pages)
Series Atlantic world, 1570-0542 ; v. 19
Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 19.
Contents Introduction. Portugal, Portuguese America and New Christians: A Missing Link in Iberian and Colonial Latin American Studies -- I. The Modern Inquisition in Portugal: A Spanish Imposition -- II. New Christian letrados and the Inquisition in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas -- Chapter One. Luis de Carvajal, the Younger, and the Inquisition in New Spain Under Philip II -- I. From Victim of the Holy Office to Transformed Subject -- II. Carvajal's Stand and Mediated Voice in the First Trial Proceeding -- III. Self-Fashioning and Public Voice through Literary Discourse -- IV. Carvajal's Second Trial -- V. Carvajal's Letters and Testamento -- Chapter Two. Bento Teixeira: A New Christian Caught by the First Visit of the Inquisition to Brazil -- I. From Poet and School Teacher to Prisoner of the Holy Office -- II. In the Cells of the Lisbon Inquisition -- III. Bento Teixeira's Prosopopéia: Text and Context -- Chapter Three. Ambivalent Acts of the Inquisition toward New Christians in the Seventeenth-Century Iberian Domains -- I. Spanish Conversos and Portuguese cristãos-novos in Seventeenth-Century Portuguese America and the Spanish American Colonies -- II. Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão and his Diálogos das grandezas do Brasil -- III. Dawn and Dusk of Brazil as Terra da Promissão -- IV. Manuel Beckman and the Levante do Maranhão -- Chapter Four. The Inquisition and Eighteenth-Century Portugal: The Case of Antônio José da Silva -- I. Framing Antônio José da Silva's Case -- II. Glimpses of Antônio José da Silva's life through his First Trial -- III. Embracing Literature and Theater after His First Trial -- IV. From Abjuration to Second Incarceration -- V. Resistance Through Writing -- VI. In Search of Possible Answers -- Afterword
Summary This book analyzes literary writings and inquisitorial testimonies produced by individuals of Jewish heritage who lived in the Iberian Atlantic during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the role they played in the expansion of the Iberian empires, despite frequent persecution by the Inquisition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Inquisition -- Portugal -- History
Christian converts from Judaism -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
Christian converts from Judaism -- Brazil -- History
RELIGION -- History.
Christian converts from Judaism
Inquisition
Konvertit
Neuchrist
Inquisition
Atlantic Ocean Region
Brazil
Portugal
Portugal
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047441557
9047441559
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9781282950948