The Lima Inquisition The Plight Of Cryptojews In Seventeenthcentury Peru Ana E Schaposchnik by Ana E. Schaposchnik 9780299306106, 0299306100 instant download after payment.

The Holy Office of the Inquisition (a royal tribunal that addressed
issues of heresy and offenses to morality) was established in Peru in
1570 and operated there until 1820. In this book, Ana E. Schaposchnik
provides a deeply researched history of the Inquisition’s Lima Tribunal,
focusing in particular on the cases of persons put under trial for
crypto-Judaism in Lima during the 1600s.
Delving deeply into the
records of the Lima Tribunal, Schaposchnik brings to light the
experiences and perspectives of the prisoners in the cells and torture
chambers, as well as the regulations and institutional procedures of the
inquisitors. She looks closely at how the lives of the accused—and in
some cases the circumstances of their deaths—were shaped by actions of
the Inquisition on both sides of the Atlantic. She explores the
prisoners’ lives before and after their incarcerations and reveals the
variety and character of prisoners’ religiosity, as portrayed in the
Inquisition’s own sources. She also uncovers individual and collective
strategies of the prisoners and their supporters to stall trials,
confuse tribunal members, and attempt to ameliorate or at least delay
the most extreme effects of the trial of faith.
The Lima Inquisition
also includes a detailed analysis of the 1639 Auto General de Fe
ceremony of public penance and execution, tracing the agendas of
individual inquisitors, the transition that occurred when punishment and
surveillance were brought out of hidden dungeons and into public
spaces, and the exposure of the condemned and their plight to an avid
and awestricken audience. Schaposchnik contends that the Lima Tribunal’s
goal, more than volume or frequency in punishing heretics, was to
discipline and shape culture in Peru.