Between Court and Confessional: The Politics of Spanish Inquisitors

412 Pages·2013·5.729 MB·English

by  Kimberly Lynn

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BetweenCourtandConfessional
ThePoliticsofSpanishInquisitors
Between Court and Confessional explores the lives of Spanish inquis-
itors, closely examining the careers and writings of five sixteenth- and
seventeenth-centuryinquisitors.KimberlyLynnconsiderswhatshaped
particularinquisitors,thekindsofofficialexperienceeachaccumulated,
andtowhatendseachdirectedhisacquiredknowledgeandexperience.
Thecasestudiesexaminethecomplexinterplayofcareerismandideo-
logical commitments evident in inquisitorial activities. Whereas many
studies of the Spanish Inquisition tend to depict inquisitors as faceless
and interchangeable, Lynn probes the lives of individual inquisitors to
showhowtheiroperationsintheirsocial,political,religious,andintel-
lectual worlds set the Inquisition in motion. By focusing on specific
individuals, this study explains how the theory and regulations of the
Inquisition were rooted in local conditions, particular disputes, and
individualexperiences.
KimberlyLynnisanassociateprofessorofearlymodernEuropeinthe
Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University.
ProfessorLynnhasbeenawardedaWilliamJ.FulbrightFellowshipfor
researchinSpainandanAndrewW.MellonFellowshipinHumanistic
Studies.ShealsowonaPhilanthropicEducationalOrganizationScholar
Award,aswellasshort-termresearchfellowshipstotheHerzogAugust
Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and the Folger Shakespeare
LibraryinWashington,D.C.

Between Court and Confessional
The Politics of Spanish Inquisitors
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Contents
ListofFigures pageviii
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
ANoteonLanguage xv
Introduction:ArbitersofFaith,AdministratorsofEmpire 1
1. VisitingtheFlock:ThePastoralAgendaofCristóbalFernández
deValtodano 47
2. WritingtheInquisition:TheTrialsofDiegodeSimancas 88
3. CourtingtheKing,CourtingthePope:LuisdePáramobetween
SpainandItaly 140
4. FallingfromGrace:TheDisenchantmentsofJuanAdamdela
Parra 191
5. NegotiatingtheCatholicMonarchy:TheTransatlantic
ManeuveringofJuandeMañozcayZamora 238
6. BuildingCareers,MakingaLegalCulture:Towardan
AppraisalofInquisitorialOffice 294
Epilogue:TheAfterlifeofSpanishInquisitors 333
Bibliography 343
Index 377
vii
Figures
Map1.SpanishInquisitionTribunalsinthe
SeventeenthCentury pagexvi
Map2.SpanishInquisitionTribunalsandNotableCities
inItaly xvii
Map3.InquisitionTribunalsintheViceroyaltiesofNew
SpainandPeru xviii
Figure1.EngravingofDiegodeSimancas,Parrino(1692) 102
Figure2.ChapeloftheHolySpirit,Cathedral,Córdoba 122
Figure3.Detail,ChapeloftheHolySpirit 123
Figure4.PaintingofChristCrucifiedandtheThree
SimancasBrothers 124
Figure5.PaintingoftheBaptismofJesus,ChapeloftheHolySpirit 125
Figure6.TheCathedralofMexicoandtheCrossofMañozca 291
Figure7.PortraitofJuandeMañozca 292
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