Through cracks in the wall : modern inquisitions and new Christian letrados in the Iberian Atlantic world / / by Lúcia Helena Costigan.

• Superior document: Atlantic world, v. 19
• Author: Costigan, Lúcia Helena.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Recent comparative, interdisciplinary scholarship has underscored the Inquisition’s function in the imperial and colonial Iberian world, particularly in relation to the development of modernity. This book illustrates and enhances these debates on the Inquisition’s relationship to imperialism, colonialism, and modernity through specific case studies of New Christians who became the target of the Inquisition. Drawing on research in the archives of the Spanish and the Portuguese Inquisition in different parts of the Iberian Atlantic World, it analyzes literary writings and inquisitorial testimonies produced by individuals of Jewish heritage who lived in the Iberian Atlantic world during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and brings to light the direct and mediated discourse produced by New Christians, revealing the still veiled contributions of an important but understudied ethnic and social group.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / L.H. Costigan -- Introduction. Portugal, Portuguese America And New Christians: A Missing Link In Iberian And Colonial Latin American Studies / L.H. Costigan -- Chapter One. Luis De Carvajal, The Younger, And The Inquisition In New Spain Under Philip II / L.H. Costigan -- Chapter Two. Bento Teixeira: A New Christian Caught By The First Visit Of The Inquisition To Brazil / L.H. Costigan -- Chapter Three. Ambivalent Acts Of The Inquisition Toward New Christians In The Seventeenth-Century Iberian Domains / L.H. Costigan -- Chapter Four. The Inquisition And Eighteenth-Century Portugal: The Case Of Antônio José Da Silva / L.H. Costigan -- Afterword / L.H. Costigan -- Bibliography / L.H. Costigan -- Index / L.H. Costigan.