Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.
Contents
In the name of the Holy office -- The inquisition at work in Pernambuco -- Qualifying for office : procedures and costs -- Qualifying for office : the problems of honor -- Genealogical fraud and political reform -- Nobility of blood -- Corporate privileges -- Corporate institutions : brotherhoods and militias -- Impostors, abusers, and obstructers -- Decay and decline.
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