Description
Book SynopsisFeaturing fifty-eight newly translated documents, meticulous annotations, and trenchant contextual analysis, this documentary history is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand the Inquisition in general and its nearly three-hundred-year reign in the New World in particular.
Trade ReviewThis collection of documents pertaining to the Holy Office of the Inquisition for New Spain makes an important contribution to readers' understanding of the efforts to maintain social control and religious conformity in multiethnic New Spain. Choice Chuchiak's book is recommended for classroom use as well as for researchers and lecturers on the subject. Those interested in knowing more about the Inquisition will find this book a must read. Colonial Latin American Historical Review John F. Chuchiak offers the most comprehensive account published in English of the administrative operation of the Inquisition in New Spain. -- Jose Esquibel Good Reads A revelation and a pleasure. [ The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536-1820] will be much appreciated by scholars and students of colonial Latin America. -- Matthew Restall Journal of Latin American Studies
Table of ContentsList of Documents
Foreword, by Asunción Lavrin
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editor's Note
The Holy Office of the Inquisition in New Spain (Mexico): An Introductory Study
1. Laws, Regulations, and Instructions concerning the Holy Office
Regulations concerning the Tribunals of the Holy Office of the Inquisition
2. Documents concerning the Operations and Procedures of the Inquisition in New Spain
Edicts of Faith of the Inquisition in New Spain
Inquisition Prisons and Life in the Cells
Administration of Torture in Inquisition Trials
Autos-da-fé in New Spain
Finances and Assets of the Inquisition in New Spain
3. Selections of Trials and Procesos de Fe of the Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820
Blasphemy Trials
Bigamy, Polygamy, and Crimes against the Sacrament of Matrimony
Trials and Testimonies against Jewish and Crypto-Jewish Practices
Trials and Testimonies against Lutherans, Calvinists, and Other Protestants
Trials and Testimonies against Alumbrados (Illuminati) and Others for Heretical Acts and False Revelations
Trials and Testimonies against Superstitions, Sorcery, and Magical Practices
Trials and Testimonies against the Use of Peyote and Other Herbs and Plantsfor Divination
Trials and Testimonies Related to Prohibited Books
Glossary
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
