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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452771903321

Autore

Lynn Kimberly

Titolo

Between court and confessional : the politics of Spanish Inquisitors / / Kimberly Lynn [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-24163-4

1-139-89135-9

1-107-50730-8

1-107-24866-3

1-139-38129-6

1-107-24783-7

1-107-25032-3

1-107-25115-X

1-107-24949-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 391 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

272/.20946

Soggetti

Inquisition - Spain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; A Note on Language; Introduction; A Peculiar Institution: Origins, Procedures, Targets; The Development of an Office; Building a Theory of Office; The Inquisitor's Worlds; Five Inquisitorial Lives; Chapter 1 Visiting the Flock The Pastoral Agenda of Cristóbal Fernández de Valtodano; Inquisitor Ordinary, Inquisitor Extraordinary; Visiting the District, Visiting the Diocese; Judging Carranza; Residence and Reform; Missives, Missals, Exorcisms; Chapter 2 Writing the Inquisition The Trials of Diego de Simancas

Son of Córdoba, Judge, and Bishop Framing the Republic and Building a Career: The Architect of a Spanish Style; An Inquisitor's Defense: Intertwining Theory and Practice; Conserving the Republic: Kin, Cathedrals, Courts; Observing Other Republics; Chapter 3 Courting the King, Courting the Pope Luis de Páramo between Spain and Italy; The Road to Sicily; The Island and the Inquisition; Petitioning from the



Margins; Battling for Jurisdiction; The Inquisitor as Historian; Chapter 4 Falling from Grace The Disenchantments of Juan Adam de la Parra; Approaching the Court

The Power to Discern: Inquisitors, Courtiers, and Charlatans A World of Conspiracies; The Hired Pen: Polemicist, Propagandist, Poet; Inquisitorial Ambitions; Chapter 5 Negotiating the Catholic Monarchy The Transatlantic Maneuvering of Juan de Mañozca y Zamora; Crisscrossing the Atlantic; New Inquisitor, New Inquisition: Founding the Tribunal in Cartagena de Indias; Framing Cases, Building Networks; The Power of Publicity, the Power of Secrecy; Monopoly in Mexico City; Chapter 6 Building Careers, Making a Legal Culture Toward an Appraisal of Inquisitorial Office; Traveling Jurists

The Theater of the World Between Cato and Cicero; Among the Lettered Elite; Thinking with Inquisitors; Epilogue The Afterlife of Spanish Inquisitors; Bibliography; Primary Sources; ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS; Primary Sources; PRINTED WORKS; Secondary Sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Between Court and Confessional explores the lives of Spanish inquisitors, closely examining the careers and writings of five sixteenth- and seventeenth-century inquisitors. Kimberly Lynn considers what shaped particular inquisitors, what kinds of official experience each accumulated, and to what ends each directed his acquired knowledge and experience. The case studies examine the complex interplay of careerism and ideological commitments evident in inquisitorial activities. Whereas many studies of the Spanish Inquisition tend to depict inquisitors as faceless and interchangeable, Lynn probes the lives of individual inquisitors to show how inquisitors' operations in their social, political, religious and intellectual worlds set the Inquisition in motion. By focusing on specific individuals, this study explains how the theory and regulations of the Inquisition were rooted in local conditions, particular disputes and individual experiences.