Book Description
And she argues that political figures used this definitional power of the Inquisition to control local populations and to increase their own authority.".
Author : Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691096834
And she argues that political figures used this definitional power of the Inquisition to control local populations and to increase their own authority.".
Author : Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 2008-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0691139385
On June 11, 1485, in the pilgrimage town of Guadalupe, the Holy Office of the Inquisition executed Alonso de Paredes--a converted Jew who posed an economic and political threat to the town's powerful friars--as a heretic. Wedding engrossing narratives of Paredes and other figures with astute historical analysis, this finely wrought study reconsiders the relationship between religious identity and political authority in late-Medieval and early-modern Spain. Gretchen Starr-LeBeau concentrates on the Inquisition's handling of conversos (converted Jews and their descendants) in Guadalupe, taking religious identity to be a complex phenomenon that was constantly re-imagined and reconstructed in light of changing personal circumstances and larger events. She demonstrates that the Inquisition reified the ambiguous religious identities of conversos by defining them as devout or (more often) heretical. And she argues that political figures used this definitional power of the Inquisition to control local populations and to increase their own authority. In the Shadow of the Virgin is unique in pointing out that the power of the Inquisition came from the collective participation of witnesses, accusers, and even sometimes its victims. For the first time, it draws the connection between the malleability of religious identity and the increase in early modern political authority. It shows that, from the earliest days of the modern Spanish Inquisition, the Inquisition reflected the political struggles and collective religious and cultural anxieties of those who were drawn into participating in it.
Author : Teresa P. Reed
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Christian literature, English (Middle)
ISBN : 9780708317983
The figuration of the Virgin Mary was often contradictory in medieval texts and theological, philosophical and social perceptions of her greatly influenced both sacred and secular literature.
Author : Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0691187371
On June 11, 1485, in the pilgrimage town of Guadalupe, the Holy Office of the Inquisition executed Alonso de Paredes--a converted Jew who posed an economic and political threat to the town's powerful friars--as a heretic. Wedding engrossing narratives of Paredes and other figures with astute historical analysis, this finely wrought study reconsiders the relationship between religious identity and political authority in late-Medieval and early-modern Spain. Gretchen Starr-LeBeau concentrates on the Inquisition's handling of conversos (converted Jews and their descendants) in Guadalupe, taking religious identity to be a complex phenomenon that was constantly re-imagined and reconstructed in light of changing personal circumstances and larger events. She demonstrates that the Inquisition reified the ambiguous religious identities of conversos by defining them as devout or (more often) heretical. And she argues that political figures used this definitional power of the Inquisition to control local populations and to increase their own authority. In the Shadow of the Virgin is unique in pointing out that the power of the Inquisition came from the collective participation of witnesses, accusers, and even sometimes its victims. For the first time, it draws the connection between the malleability of religious identity and the increase in early modern political authority. It shows that, from the earliest days of the modern Spanish Inquisition, the Inquisition reflected the political struggles and collective religious and cultural anxieties of those who were drawn into participating in it.
Author : Joseph Langford, MC
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1612782809
"Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people." -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta As it was for Mother Teresa, so it can be for the rest of us. By standing close to Our Lady we can find the grace and courage to overcome our own personal trials and crosses. Summon the same powerful presence and aid of Our Lady by following the example of Mother Teresa. "Sitting with Mother Teresa, watching her tend to the sick and the dying, feeling the aura of holiness around her person, seeing her bent in prayer, lost in God -- how often I asked myself if I was not seeing something of Our Lady, experiencing a glimpse of the Virgin of Nazareth." -- Joseph Langford, MC, author and co-founder of the Missionaries of Charity Fathers
Author : Elvira Dones
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Albania
ISBN : 9781908276346
Independence in the Albanian mountains means a vow to become a man--independence in America means reclaiming her womanhood.
Author : Laura Westley
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Iraq War, 2003-2011
ISBN : 9780692766934
ON MARCH 21, 2003, Army Lieutenant and West Point graduate Laura Westley invaded liberated Iraq (the Army prohibited using the word "invasion") with the full intention of keeping her virginity securely intact. For twenty-four years, she had obeyed the strict teachings of evangelical Christianity and kept her legs closed, vowing to preserve her purity for her future husband. Being at war, however, made her realize that adhering to strict religious principles perhaps wasn't worth it, not when bombs, RPGs and gunfire constantly threaten to cut your life short. WAR VIRGIN is a coming-of-age memoir that chronicles Laura's journey through repression, temptation, and ultimately, liberation. This "war story" describes a woman's battle to discover, protect and own her unique identity. No veteran or West Point graduate has ever offered such a candid, irreverent look at the comically naughty, sexually charged underbelly of the military.
Author : William L. STONE (Writer of Verse.)
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 1963
Category :
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Author : Frank Wilson Kenyon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
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Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781853261954
These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published in the latter half of the 1920s.