Women, witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World

María Jesús Zamora Calvo

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Women, witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World

Información General

Autores: María Jesús Zamora Calvo (coord.)
Editores: Louisiana State University Press
Año de publicación: 2021
Colecciones: New Hispanisms : Cultural and Literary Studies
País: Estados Unidos
Idioma: inglés
ISBN: 978-0-8071-7561-3
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Reseñas

Ha sido reseñado en:
- María Jesús Zamora Calvo (ed.) (2021). Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World
  José Luis Loriente (res.)
  Edad de oro, ISSN 0212-0429, Nº. 41, 2022, págs. 429-432
- Reseña de María Jesús Zamora Calvo (ed.), «Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World», Baton Rouge, Lousiana State University Press, 2021, 214 pp. ISBN: 9780807175613
  Roberto Morales Estévez
  Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro, ISSN-e 2328-1308, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 769-774
- Reseña
  Alberto Ortiz
  Alpha: revista de artes, letras y filosofía, ISSN-e 0718-2201, ISSN 0716-4254, Nº. 54, 2022, págs. 230-233
- Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World ed. by María Jesús Zamora Calvo (review)
  Mary-Anne Vetterling
  Hispania, ISSN 0018-2133, Vol. 105, Nº 3, 2022, págs. 468-470
- María Jesús Zamora Calvo. Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 2021. HB. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-8071-7561-3.
  Yolanda Gamboa Tusquets
  Calíope: journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Society, ISSN 1084-1490, Vol. 28, Nº. 2, 2023, págs. 377-379
- Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World.María Jesús Zamora Calvo, ed.
  Jordan Vanderpool
  Confluencia: Revista hispánica de cultura y literatura, ISSN 0888-6091, ISSN-e 2328-6962, Vol. 38, Nº 2, 2023, págs. 181-182

Resumen

Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Edited by María Jesús Zamora Calvo, this collection gathers innovative scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards.

Ten essays present portraits of women who, under accusations as diverse as witchcraft, bigamy, false beatitude, and heresy, faced the Spanish and New World Inquisitions to account for their lives. Each essay draws on the documentary record of trials, confessions, letters, diaries, and other primary materials. Focusing on individual cases of women brought before the Inquisition, the authors study their subjects' social status, particularize their motivations, determine the characteristics of their prosecution, and deduce the reasons used to justify violence against them. With their subjection of women to imprisonment, interrogation, and judgment, these cases display at their core a specter of contempt, humiliation, silencing, and denial of feminine selfhood. The contributors include specialists in the early modern period from multiple disciplines, encompassing literature, language, translation, literary theory, history, law, iconography, and anthropology.

By considering both the women themselves and the Inquisition as an institution, this collection works to uncover stories, lives, and cultural practices that for centuries have dwelled in obscurity.