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HST 397/597 3(3-0) D.

 

HST 397/597

THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN

& THE NEW WORLD

 

      The Inquisition had religious, political, and economic consequences and these factors brought changes to the history of the New World. This course will explore the procedures, methods, and institutional history of both the Inquisition and the Provisorato de Indios (or Extirpation-the episcopal campaigns to uproot native ritual practices, or "idolatry") in Spain and colonial Spanish America.  The course will also analyze the diversity and dynamics of the responses to inquisitorial investigations and punishment by indigenous peoples, women, Jews, Africans, mestizos, and Spanish men.

 

       After a consideration of the social and institutional dynamics of inquisitorial efforts in 16th-century Spain and Italy, this course will analyze the early development of inquisitorial efforts between the early 1500's and 1571 in Mexico and the Andes, contrast the emergence of Inquisition tribunals in Mexico and Peru after 1571 with the proto-inquisitorial efforts to prosecute indigenous idolatry and sorcery by the episcopal tribunals, and examine the various trends in the prosecution of Jews, Protestants, and "illuminated" men and women in the 17th and 18th centuries.

 

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