Perfect Wives, Other Women
Subtitle: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780822326427
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Women's studies; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Inquisition; Gender Studies; Social Science; History - General History; Spain; Sociology; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; Medieval & Early Modern Studie; Adultery; History; Wives
First sentence: In the early months of 1632, Juan de Quinones, an official in the court of Philip IV, addressed a memorandum to the king's confessor, Inquisitor General Fray Antonio de Sotomayor, citing what he presented as incontrovertible "means for knowing and persecuting the Jewish race": entre otras maldiciones que padece [la raza judia] corporeal y espiritualmente, dentro y fuera de su cuerpo, por aber perseguido el verdadero Mesias Christo nuestro redentor, hasta ponerlo en una cruz, que todos los meses muchos dellos padecen flujo de sangre por las partes posteriores, en senal perpetua de ignominia y oprobio. . . .