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Women in the Inquisition : Spain and the New World / edited by Mary E. Giles. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1999. - ix, 402 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-388) and index.

Mari Sánchez and Inés González: conflict and cooperation among crypto-Jews / Gretchen Starr-Lebeau -- Inés of Herrera del Duque: the prophetess of extremadura / Haim Beinart -- María López: a convicted judaizer from Castile / Renée Levine Melammed -- Francisca Hernández and the sexuality of religious dissent / Mary E. Giles -- María de Cazalla: the grievous price of victory / Angel Alcalá -- Francisca de los apóstoles: a visionary voice for reform in sixteenth-century Toledo / Gillian T.W. Ahlgren -- Y yo dije, "Sí senor": Ana Domenge and the Barcelona inquisition / Elizabeth Rhodes -- María de Jesús de Agreda: the sweetheart of the holy office / Clark Colahan -- Contested identities: the Morisca visionary, Beatriz de Robles / Mary Elizabeth Perry -- When bigamy is the charge: Gallegan women and the holy office / Allyson M. Poska -- "More sins than the Queen of England": Marina de San Miguel before the Mexican inquisition / Jacqueline Holler -- Blasphemy as resistance: an African slave woman before the Mexican inquisition / Kathryn Joy McKnight -- Rosa de Escalante's private party: popular female religiosity in colonial Mexico City / Linda A. Curcio-Nagy -- Testimony for canonization or proof of blasphemy?: the new Spanish inquisition and the hagiographic biography of Catarina de San Juan / Kathleen Myers.

ISBN: 080185931X (alk. paper) 0801859328 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 98003998

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Inquisition--Mexico.
Inquisition--Spain.
Women in the Catholic Church--History.--Mexico
Women in the Catholic Church--History.--Spain

LC Class. No.: BX1735 / .W59 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 272.2 / G393w