Peppered with a great deal of wit and humor, Don Quixote is a unique portrait of the cultural, social and political landscape of Spain at the turn of the seventeenth century.
The Inquisitor and the Jewish Mother: The Role of Food in Creation of Converso Identity in Inquisition Spain
June 12, 2011 By
Learning by Doing: Coping with Inquisitors in Medieval Languedoc
May 30, 2011 By
Torquemada, the Inquisition, And the Expulsion of the Jews
March 21, 2011 By
Torquemada, the Inquisition, And the Expulsion of the Jews Rush, Timothy EIR Strategic Studies, April 1 (2005) Abstract The essential conflict between Europe and Islam must be seen in the context of the earlier alliance between Charle- magne and the Baghdad Caliphate’s Haroun el-Rashid. The origin of the conflict is essentially traced to the period approximately […]
Sibilla Peyre of Arques: The Motivated Construction of Experience and Self in an Inquisitorial Deposition
January 24, 2011 By
By the end of the thirteenth century Languedocian Catharism had been almost entirely eradicated, but the first decade of the fourteenth century saw what is often referred to as the ‘Autier revival’.
LABELING AND OPPRESSION: WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
January 11, 2011 By
LABELING AND OPPRESSION: WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Campbell, Mary Ann (Washington University) Mid-American Review of Sociology, V ol. III, No.2 Abstract The attempt here is to understand the social conditions and processes through which witches were labeled, hunted and persecuted in Europe during the Middle Ages. An historical analysis, utilizing anthropological accounts; Church doctrines and handbooks […]
The Sorcerer of Sainte Felice
October 5, 2010 By
The Sorcerer of Sainte Felice Ann Finnin Publisher:Llewellyn Worldwide, June 1, 2010 ISBN:9780738720708 Summary “I was only an apprentice. I swear it. By all the angels in Heaven.” Condemned to death by the Holy Office for sorcery, fifteen-year-old Michael de Lorraine is rescued from the flames by Abbot Francis and granted refuge at Sainte Felice, […]
Trials for Sorcery in Early Fourteenth-Century Avignon
June 20, 2010 By
Trials for Sorcery in Early Fourteenth-Century Avignon Session:Politics, Condemnation, and Sorcery in the Fourteenth Century By Robert Ticknor, Tulane University This paper dealt with the question of magic and sorcery and the bridge between abstract theological questions and actual magic. The general category of magic is crucial to the understanding cultural mores in societies. Magic […]
A Response to Kathleen Biddick
December 21, 2009 By
A Response to Kathleen Biddick Aers, David Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 11 (1994) Abstract Kathleen Biddick’s paper is characteristically inventive. Ranging across a wide range of current writings in a multiplicity of fields in cultural and post-colonial studies, it is full of suggestive comments on their potential relevance to medieval studies. It is a […]
Becoming Ethnographic: Reading Inquisitorial Authority in The Hammer of Witches
December 21, 2009 By
Becoming Ethnographic: Reading Inquisitorial Authority in The Hammer of Witches Biddick, Kathleen Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 11 (1994) Abstract What kind of complicit relationships to “evidence” and to “truth” might contemporary microhistories of inquisitorial archives enjoy with late medieval/early modern inquisitorial discourse? What do Carlo Ginzburg and Guido Ruggiero have to do with the […]
Portuguese Crypto-Jewish Ballads: A Passagem do Mar Vermelho and A Pedra Mara
October 4, 2008 By
Some New Christians managed to escape abroad, founding Jewish communities in Bordeaux, London, Amsterdam, and other cities (Azevedo 359-430). With the union of the Portuguese and Spanish crowns (1580-1640), the number of those who moved to Spain and its American colonies was so great that the word “Portuguese” became practically synonymous with “Jew.”
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