Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition
Subtitle: A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama
By: Frances Levine
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780806153360
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Inquisition; Political culture; Trials, litigation; Dissenters; Governors' spouses; Crypto-Jews; Church history; Social conditions; Colonies; Biography; History
Description: "Teresa Aguilera y Roche, wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal, was the only woman from New Mexico ever tried by the Inquisition for the crime of secretly practicing Jewish rituals. Doña Teresa's arrest, trial, and eventual exoneration shed light on the social fabric of seventeenth-century Santa Fe as well as the dangers of non-conformity on even the farthest frontiers of Spanish America. Accusing the governor and his wife of crypto-Judaism, Levine argues, had more to do with rival politicians and clergy that used the Inquisition to silence opposition than actual heretical behavior" --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Becoming New Mexico; title: Intrigue in the Royal Palace; title: A gathering storm; title: Charged with a "haughty and presumptuous spirit"; title: Taking matters into her own hands; title: Reaching conclusions; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix A: Inventory of the possessions of Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche, arrested in the Casas Reales, August 27, 1662; title: Appendix B: Inventory of Doña Teresa's items, April 1663; title: Appendix C: Doña Teresa tenders her reply.