Agents of Orthodoxy : honor, status, and the Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, Brazil / James E. Wadsworth.
The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this n...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007. |
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