Browsing by Subject "Inquisition -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century"
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- ItemLas Enemigas de Honestidad: La Inquisición de la Curandera-Alcahueta en los Casos de la Centella y la Celestina(2010) Ottman, Noel; Burshatin, IsraelEsta tesis analiza el texto literario más reconocido sobre los poderes de la curandera—La Celestina—para entender la marginalización de otra curandera en la España y Nueva España de la temprana edad moderna. Nos proponemos explorar en este ensayo el modo en que la Inquisición—como una institución que facilita la construcción del Estado moderno—impone la organización de la sociedad según las jerarquías de género sexual, clase, profesionalización, y religión. Estos temas se juntan en torno a la figura de la curandera tanto en los archivos como en un “best-seller” de la literatura hispánica aurisecular.
- ItemLicense to Cure: Policing Women's Healing in the Trials of Ysabel de Montoia(2010) Ottman, Noel; Burshatin, Israel; Krippner, JamesThe Mexican Inquisition arrested Ysabel de Montoia, alias La Centella, in 1650 and again in 1661 on charges of witchcraft, superstitious healing, and crimes of sensuality. As a well-known curandera, or magical healer, in Puebla and Mexico City, Ysabel served a broad client base ranging from prostitutes to city officials. After her first trial, Ysabel claimed that the Inquisition had granted her a special license to heal; she was able to expand her business and even gained inquisitor as a client. In her trials, Ysabel articulated alternate matrices for understanding gender relations, expertise, and religion. This thesis uses her case, and the figure of the curandera, to analyze women's agency and the influence of non-elite discourse in colonial Mexico.
- ItemThe Devil and the Irish King: Don Guillén Lombardo, the Inquisition and the politics of dissent in Colonial Mexico City(2004) Konove, Andrew Philip; Saler, Bethel; Stuard, Susan Mosher; Krippner, JamesThe Mexican Inquisition arrested Don Guillén Lombardo de Guzmán in 1642 for practicing magic, selling peyote to an Indian and plotting to overthrow Mexico's colonial government. As an Irish Catholic of noble descent, Don Guillén had studied in London and Madrid, captained a pirate ship and fought in the Spanish Army before arriving in the New World. He spoke at least five languages, was a prolific writer and was one of Colonial Mexico City's most notorious heretics. This thesis analyzes Don Guillén's life in the context of the 17th century Atlantic world and uses it to explore the nature of religious crime and policing in the Americas.