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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452771903321
• Autore: Lynn Kimberly
• 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.

The turtles of Mexico : land and freshwater forms / / John M. Legler and Richard C. Vogt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968533403321
• Autore: Legler John M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2013
• ISBN: 9780520956896; 0520956893
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (415 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): VogtRichard Carl
• Disciplina: 597.920972
• Soggetti: Turtles - Mexico
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Materials and Methods Used for This Book -- Structure and Function -- Natural History -- Turtles, Humans, and Research -- Field and Laboratory Techniques -- Modern Taxonomic Studies and Techniques -- A Key to the Families and Genera of Mexican Chelonians (Excluding the Sea Turtles) -- Family Dermatemydidae -- Family Kinosternidae -- Family Trionychidae -- Family Testudinidae -- Family Testudinidae -- Family Geoemydidae -- Family Chelydridae -- LITERATURE CITED -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico. Legler and Vogt draw on more than fifty years of fieldwork to elucidate the natural history of these species. The volume includes an extensive introduction to turtle anatomy, taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, and physiology. A key to the turtles of Mexico is included along with individual species accounts featuring geographic distribution maps and detailed color illustrations. Specific topics discussed for each species include habitat, diet, feeding behavior, reproduction, predators, parasites, growth and ontogeny, sexual dimorphism, growth rings, economic use, conservation, legal protection, and taxonomic studies. This book is a complete reference for scientists, conservationists, and professional and amateur enthusiasts who wish to study Mexican turtles.