Agents of Orthodoxy
Subtitle: honor, status, and the Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, Brazil
By: James E. Wadsworth
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780742554450
Subjects: Inquisition; Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: In the name of the Holy office; title: The inquisition at work in Pernambuco; title: Qualifying for office : procedures and costs; title: Qualifying for office : the problems of honor; title: Genealogical fraud and political reform; title: Nobility of blood; title: Corporate privileges; title: Corporate institutions : brotherhoods and militias; title: Impostors, abusers, and obstructers; title: Decay and decline.