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Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco,

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ISBN-13
9780742554450
ISBN
9780742554450
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil
Item Height
239mm
Author
James E. Wadsworth
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Topic
Religious History, History
Item Width
160mm
Item Weight
594g
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this new study, based on extensive archival research, James E. Wadsworth challenges these myths by focusing on the lay and clerical officials who staffed the Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, one of Brazil's oldest, wealthiest, and most populated colonies. He argues that the Inquisition was an integral part of colonial society and that it reflected and reinforced deeply held social and religious values that crossed the Atlantic, recreated themselves in colonial Brazil, and became powerful tools for exclusion and promotion in Brazilian society. The Inquisition successfully appropriated widely held social norms and manipulated social tensions to create and recreate its own power and prestige for almost three hundred years. It finally declined only when its capacity to socially promote its officials diminished in the late eighteenth century. Agents of Orthodoxy places the men who ran the Inquisition in historical context and demonstrates that they were often motivated by social aspirations in seeking inquisitional appointments. Beautifully written and extensively researched, this book sheds new light on a long-standing institution and its participants.

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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-13
9780742554450
eBay Product ID (ePID)
179365875

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Book Title
Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil
Author
James E. Wadsworth
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Religious History, History
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Item Height
239mm
Item Width
160mm
Item Weight
594g

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James E. Wadsworth
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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