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The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation
'In the last two decades, the history of the Counter-Reformation has been stretched and re-shaped in numerous directions. Reflecting the variety and innovation that characterize studies of early modern Catholicism today, this volume incorporates topics as diverse as life cycle and community, science and the senses, the performing and visual arts, material objects and print culture, war and the state, sacred landscapes and urban structures. Moreover, it challenges the conventional chronological parameters of the Counter-Reformation and introduces the reader to the latest research on global Catholicism. The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation presents a comprehensive examination of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture and religious change. This wide-ranging and original research guide is a unique resource for scholars and students of European and transnational history.
Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe
Reflecting on humanity's shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.
Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman
When Philip IV of Spain died in 1665, his heir, Carlos II, was three years old. In addition to this looming dynastic crisis, decades of enormous military commitments had left Spain a virtually bankrupt state with vulnerable frontiers and a depleted army. In Silvia Z. Mitchell’s revisionist account, Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman, Queen Regent Mariana of Austria emerges as a towering figure at court and on the international stage, while her key collaborators—the secretaries, ministers, and diplomats who have previously been ignored or undervalued—take their rightful place in history. Mitchell provides a nuanced account of Mariana of Austria’s ten-year regency (1665–75) of the global...
Latin American Constitutionalism
Latin American Constitutions provides a comprehensive historical study of constitutionalism in Latin America from the independence period to the present, focusing on the Constitution of Cádiz, a foundational document in Latin American constitutionalism. Although drafted in Spain, it was applied in many regions of Latin America, and deputies from America formed a significant part of the drafting body. The politicization of constitutionalism reflected in Latin America's first moments proved to be a lasting legacy evident in the legal and constitutional world of the region today: many of Latin America's present challenges to establishing effective constitutionalism can be traced to the debates, ideas, structures, and assumptions of this text. This book explores the region's attempts to create effective constitutional texts and regimes in light of an established practice of linking constitutions to political goals and places important constitutional thinkers and regional constitutions, such as the Mexican Constitution of 1917, into their legal and historical context.
Acquittals in the Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal. This study of more than 67,000 trials uncovers over 2,500 formal acquittals, more than 6,600 suspended trials, and nearly 2,100 with unknown or no recorded outcomes. The inquisitors were jurists who frequently held other judgeships before and after their tenure and used the same evidentiary rules as other Spanish courts. If every acquittal may be taken as an admission of error, the Spanish Inquisition admitted its errors thousands of times, occasionally even putting them on public display at the autos de fe. An acquittal can also be taken as a sign that the inquisitors did not wish to punish the innocent and that while they were quick to arrest and charge people on flimsy evidence, they were too conscientious to convict them without further proof. However, it is also clear that the Holy Office at times did bend, twist, or even break the law when it suited it in order to secure a conviction. This book is aimed at students, scholars, and general readers seeking a nuanced understanding of the Spanish Inquisition and its workings.
La sentencia inquisitorial
La historia de la Inquisición Española es mucho más que la narración de los instrumentos de tortura o de la agonía de los que la sufrieron. El Santo Oficio era, ante todo, un Tribunal con su regulación jurídica, aspectos administrativos y organizativos, por lo que es un tema que compete directamente a los estudiosos de Historia del Derecho. En España se han hecho importantes trabajos de investigación acerca de este tema, aglutinados sobre todo en torno al Instituto de Historia de la Inquisición, con sede en la Univesidad Complutense de Madrid. Menos frecuentes han sido los estudios de carácter estrictamente procesal, por lo que no existía una monografía sobre la sentencia, que al fin y al cabo es el antecedente y el condicionante de los castigos y torturas, mucho más conocidos. Este libro cubre un hueco académico y editorial y descubrirá a todos los lectores aspectos inéditos no por legales, menos interesantes del Tribunal del Santo Oficio.
Estudios sobre historia de la intolerancia
Obra colectiva en la que se estudian diversas manifestaciones de la intolerancia a lo largo de la historia y en el mundo actual; las minorías judeo-conversas y moriscas en la Edad Media y Moderna, la exigencia de pureza de sangre para ingresar en las órdenes militares, los problemas de intolerancia en la conquista de las Indias, la legislación y movimientos antiesclavistas en el pensamiento español del siglo XVII y el proceso legislativo abolicionista desde las Cortes de Cádiz y finalmente el estudio de la raza como circunstancia modificativa de la responsabilidad penal en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Supremo a fines del siglo XIX. También se estudian diversas manifestaciones de intr...
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APOLOGÍA
La Apología es un alegato de defensa con que Antonio de Nebrija, el prestigioso catedrático de la Universidad de Salamanca, defiende ante el Santo Oficio sus estudios sobre el texto de la Biblia. No se trata, por tanto, de una mera pieza literaria; pues bajo el ropaje de discurso retórico con el que su autor lo adorna años más tardes para darlo a la imprenta, encontramos un documento judicial que responde a amenazantes acusaciones reales, por ser precisamente un gramático y no un teólogo quien pretendía enmendar el texto de las Sagradas Escrituras. En este sentido la Apología se convierte en un vigoroso apóstrofe en favor de la libertad de pensamiento, de conciencia, de opinión, y como tal es capaz de despertar nuestra solidaridad frente a la represión, a la censura o al control ideológico. En una lectura más apegada a su tiempo, la Apología descuella asimismo como un documento plenamente representativo de las corrientes humanistas del Renacimiento, que postula el método filológico aplicado a la crítica textual bíblica. Y que encarna el atribulado devenir del humanismo bíblico en España
