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Inquisition between men and gods: Holy Office, evangelization and punitive politics in New Spain (1521-1545)

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Author(s):
Saulo Goulart
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Examining board members:
Leandro Karnal; Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron; Luiz Estevam de Oliveira Fernandes; Rui Luis Rodrigues; Leila Mezan Algranti
Advisor: Leandro Karnal
Abstract

This work aims to put light in how the Holy Office of the Inquisition operated around the native Indians of the Mexican Valley and its surroundings. It is, mainly, about the relation of implemented legal procedures to the first evangelization projects, from the years 1521 to 1543. It seeks, from various inquisitorial processes, to spot the connections that tie the inquisitorial practices to the evangelists¿ assumptions. The age approached includes the period of procedures taken forward by Mexican bishop and inquisitor, the Franciscan friar Juan de Zumárraga. Therefore, the tendencies that guided Saint Francis Order courses in its evangelical work are confronted with the peculiarities of the inquisitorial actions. The interposition provided by the Franciscan clergy was primordial to the punitive interventions, working intensively in the steps that composed the Holly Office inquiry. The sources examined support a close dependency between the Inquisition processes against the native Indians and the actions of the first evangelists in colonial Mexico. The rooting and the legal channels of the court followed the dissemination and the performance of the Franciscan regular, overwhelming majority in the period in question (AU)

FAPESP's process: 11/21589-7 - The Inquisition, the indigenous and the Quarrel Evangelizing in New Spain (1521-1571)
Grantee:Saulo Mendes Goulart
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate