James E. Wadsworth

Gebundenes Buch

Agents of Orthodoxy

Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil

Beschreibung

The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an impotent society. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book challenges this myth by arguing that the Inquisition was integral to colonial society, reinforcing European social and religious values that were recreated in colonial Brazil.

Autor

James E. Wadsworth is professor of history at Stonehill College. He is theauthor of In Defence of the Faith: Joaquim Marques de Araújo, a Comissário in the Age of Inquisitional Decline, Columbus's First Voyage: A History in Documents, and The World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts: James Richards and His Day Book, 1692-1711.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780742554450
• ISBN-10: 0742554457
• Artikelnr.: 22281829