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Author Lynn, Kimberly.

Title Between court and confessional : the politics of Spanish Inquisitors / Kimberly Lynn.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 391 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Examines the careers and writings of five inquisitors, explaining how the theory and regulations of the Spanish Inquisition were rooted in local conditions.
Contents 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 BishopFraming 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 CharlatansA 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 WorldBetween 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.
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Subject Inquisition -- Spain.
Inquisition.
Spain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lynn, Kimberly. Between court and confessional. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107031166 (DLC) 2012048143 (OCoLC)823045305
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