Mulatto · Outlaw · Pilgrim · Priest: The Legal Case of José Soller, Accused of Impersonating a Pastor and Other Crimes in Seventeenth-Century Spain

382 Pages·2020·4.689 MB·English

by  John K. Moore, Jr.

Mulatto·Outlaw·Pilgrim·Priest
The Medieval and Early Modern
Iberian World
Editedby
LarryJ.Simon(WesternMichiganUniversity)
GerardWiegers(UniversityofAmsterdam)
ArieSchippers(UniversityofAmsterdam)
IsidroJ.Rivera(UniversityofKansas)
MercedesGarcía-Arenal(CCHS/CSIC)
MontserratPiera(TempleUniversity)
volume 75
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Mulatto · Outlaw · Pilgrim · Priest
TheLegalCaseof JoséSoller,Accusedof
ImpersonatingaPastorandOtherCrimesin
Seventeenth-centurySpain
By
JohnK.Moore,Jr.
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Coverillustration:ClintonLariscy, JoséSollerintheVineyards,2019,watercoloronpaper,20×20cm.Private
collectionbelongingtotheauthor.Originalartworkcommissionedbytheauthor.
ThisresearchwasassistedbybothanACLSFellowshipfromthe
AmericanCouncilofLearnedSocietiesandanNEHFellowship
fromtheNationalEndowmentfortheHumanities.
LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData
Names:Moore,JohnK.,Jr.,1971-author.|Soller,José,defendant.ElFiscaldesu
MajestadconJoséSoller,peregrinomulatodeSantoDomingo,sobrefingirse
sacerdoteyotrosdelitos.
Title:Mulatto·outlaw·pilgrim·priest:thelegalcaseofJoséSoller,accusedof
impersonatingapastorandothercrimesinseventeenth-centurySpain/John
K.Moore,Jr..
Othertitles:LegalcaseofJoséSoller,accusedofimpersonatingapastorandother
crimesinseventeenth-centurySpain
Description:Leiden;Boston:Brill,2020.|Series:Themedievalandearlymodern
Iberianworld,1569-1934;75|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
Identifiers:LCCN2020002577(print)|LCCN2020002578(ebook)|
ISBN9789004417779(hardback)|ISBN9789004422704(ebook)
Subjects:LCSH:Soller,José–Trials,litigation,etc.|Trials(Fraud)–Spain–Galicia
(Region)–History–17thcentury.|Falsepersonation–Spain–History–17th
century,|Blacks–Spain–Socialconditions–17thcentury.
Classification:LCC KKT174.S(Soller)M662020(print)|LCC KKT174.S(Soller)
(ebook)|DDC345.46/02633–dc23
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Cleo,Lucas,Gabriel,Seona,andEamon—always
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Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xii
ListofFigures xvii
ChronologyofJoséSoller xix
Part 1
InSearchofSoller
1 TheVineyards 3
2 TheLegalCaseagainstJoséSoller 12
3 Origins 31
4 TheNatureoftheJourney 64
5 ReconstructingLocalesalongtheWay 103
6 OnTrial,underSentence,andinAbsentia 163
7 IntoThinAir 203
Part 2
HisMajesty’sRepresentativeversusJoséSoller,MulattoPilgrim,
forImpersonatingaPriestandOtherCrimes:Editionand
Translation
NoteontheTranslation 213
EditorialNorms 216
EditionandTranslation 228
viii contents
Part 3
ScholarlySupplement
ProperNamesintheDossier 313
LinguisticVariants 319
ScribalErrors 321
CaseNotes 323
Bibliography 331
Index 348