Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil
James E. Wadsworth
ISBN 10: 0742554465 ISBN 13: 9780742554467
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2017
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The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an impotent society. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book challenges this myth by arguing that the Inquisition was integral to colonial society, reinforcing European social and religious values that were recreated in colonial Brazil. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLS; HBJK; HRAX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428. . 2016. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780742554467
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The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an impotent society. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book challenges this myth by arguing that the Inquisition was integral to colonial society, reinforcing European social and religious values that were recreated in colonial Brazil.
About the Author: James E. Wadsworth is professor of history at Stonehill College. He is theauthor of In Defence of the Faith: Joaquim Marques de Araújo, a Comissário in the Age of Inquisitional Decline, Columbus’s First Voyage: A History in Documents, and The World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts: James Richards and His Day Book, 1692–1711.
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Title: Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the ...
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New