Inquisition and Purity of Blood in Portugal during the Seventeenth Century by Ana Isabel López-Salazar Codes

“…This article focuses specifically on the different and changing attitudes of the Inquisitors General to the issue of purity of blood during the seventeenth century. …”
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Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics by Chris Carter by Etzel Cardeña

“…Bruno was burned alive after the inquisitors inserted in his mouth an iron gag that pierced his tongue and palate. …”
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From Idolatry to <i>Gentilidade</i>: Assessing Local Christians’ Religious Offences in the Goa Inquisition (17th Century) by Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço

“…Many of these perceived offences occurred in connection with rituals, practices and behaviours stemming from Asian cultural and religious settings, leading the inquisitors in Goa to assess a variety of external features and performances (“signs”) in order to determine the seriousness of the offence and the penalty to impose. …”
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Les corps comme preuve. Médecins et inquisiteurs dans les pratiques judiciaires du Saint-Office by Federico Barbierato

“…The essay will start from the case of early modern Venice and focus on the strategies by which inquisitors observed and tested the bodies of witnesses and defendants. …”
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Witchcraft treatises in the National Library of Spain by María Jesús Zamora Calvo

“…They served as guides for inquisitors, helping them conduct interrogations and sho-wing them how to apply torture, how to decide on punishments, when to hold an auto de fe, and what the hierarchy in those acts should be. …”
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Une marrane devant le Saint-Office de l’Inquisition, México, 1642-1649. Isabel Tristán, « La Tristana » by Solange Alberro

“…Denounced to the Saint Office by several testimonies, torture didn’t break her, and Tristana didn’t confess anything new to the inquisitors. Because of her strong and haughty character she was sentenced to be burnt at the stake.…”
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L’administration vénitienne et l’évolution des techniques d’enregistrement des étrangers dans le contexte de la Révolution française (1789-1797) by Gilles Bertrand

“…More inclined to prefer annotations rather than passports, State inquisitors feverishly collected informations from hotels, lodging-house keepers, monasteries, passenger carriers, monitoring authorities for the entrances and exits in Venice, and postmasters and officers in the Terraferma. …”
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Discursul judiciar utilizat de aparatul inchizitorial/ Judicial Discourse Used by the Inquisition by Mihai Floroaia

“…To these are added various codes of criminal procedure or manuals for the use of inquisitors, guides according to which were recognized persons who practiced witchcraft, the legislation applicable to convicting heretics and persons who taught other teachings than those preached by the Western Church. …”
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Cornielis (alias Cornejo): A Coda to the Case of Maria Pizarro and Francisco de la Cruz in Sixteenth-century Lima by Nicole D. Legnani

“…I argue that Cornielis was queer and attracted the attention of De la Cruz, who mentions him several times in his testimony to inquisitors. Because Cornielis’s case was not published with the three-volume edition of the De la Cruz case curated by Vidal Abril Castelló and Miguel Abril Stoffels, it has not garnered critical attention.…”
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Crainte et dépendance : le pouvoir sur les corps en Toulousain au xiiie siècle by Céline Cheirézy

“…This essay is based on the fright that deponents confess they feel regarding their lord and who could have them lie when facing inquisitors. Basing also this research on the manifestations of fear with regard to the judicial power of the Inquisition, we have to bring to the fore the origin of such a power which induces obedience and puts a mark of dependence on bodies. …”
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Cornielis (alias Cornejo): A Coda to the Case of María Pizarro and Francisco de la Cruz in Sixteenth-century Lima by Nicole Legnani

“…I argue that Cornielis was queer and attracted the attention of De la Cruz, who mentions him several times in his testimony to inquisitors. Because Cornielis’s case was not published with the three-volume edition of the De la Cruz case curated by Vidal Abril Castelló and Miguel Abril Stoffels, it has not garnered critical attention.…”
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Forgers and martyrs : conflicting histories of the Portuguese Inquisition (1598-1647) by Marocci, G

“…On the contrary, by looking back to the first half of the seventeenth century and focusing on two case studies — that of the Dominican António de Sousa and that of Manuel do Vale de Moura — this article shows how the Portuguese inquisitors were often involved in a struggle to define a historical image of the Holy Office. …”

Guillén de Lamport. Su relación y apoyo a los judaizantes en el siglo XVII en la Nueva España by Alicia Gojman de Backal

“…Coincided the years of 1642 to 1649 with these Crypto-Jews in jail and wrote a lawsuit against the Inquisitors for the bad treatment that was given to the prisoners and especially to them. …”
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“A insustentável leveza das fronteiras: Clero Católico na Maçonaria e a questão do Anticlericalismo e do Antimaçonismo em Portugal” by Fernanda Santos, José Eduardo Franco

“…The Inqu isition also prohibited the participation of Catholics in freemasonry meetings, and ordered bishops, prelates and inquisitors to identify the offenders. Despite these historical facts, this paper intends to show that ther e are records of the involvem ent of Catholic priests and bishops in portuguese Freemasonary since the mid eighteenth century.…”
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African Diaspora Protection: Amulets in New Spain, New Granada, and the Caribbean by Andrea Guerrero Mosquera

“…Conclusions: By considering and interrogating diverse sources on the conversion of Africans and the African diaspora in the Americas, these stories transcend the immutable benevolence of Catholicism and Eurocentrism and question the myopia of the Jesuits and inquisitors in New Spain and New Granada when observing African customs. …”
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African Diaspora Protection: Amulets in New Spain, New Granada, and the Caribbean by Andrea Guerrero Mosquera

“…Conclusions: By considering and interrogating diverse sources on the conversion of Africans and the African diaspora in the Americas, these stories transcend the immutable benevolence of Catholicism and Eurocentrism and question the myopia of the Jesuits and inquisitors in New Spain and New Granada when observing African customs. …”
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Hearing Voices: Reapproaching Medieval Inquisition Records by David Zbíral, Robert L. J. Shaw

“…It also highlights some shortcomings in that debate, e.g., the overrepresentation of inquisitors’ choices; the claim that the use of torture led automatically to reproducing outlandish inquisitorial fears; and the idea that exceptional detail correlates with reliability. …”
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Magical Meztizaje in the City: Exchanges, Appropiations and Receptions. The Inquisitorial Trial of María Flores «la llana Candela», 1699-1709 by Natalia Urra Jaque

“…In each of her confessions, she related to her inquisitors the motilities, the knowledge and the skills acquired over the years, as her being mestiza allowed her move between the Hispanic and indigenous worlds, and, at the same time, carry with her a series of prejudices that facilitated a level of recognition among her peers. …”
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El Tribunal de la Inquisición de Valladolid y el control de las ideas en la España del siglo XVIII by Ángel de PRADO MOURA

“…</p><p>ABSTRACT: The Tribunal of the Inquisition of Valladolid —similarly to the rest of the tribunals of the Spanish Holy Office— showed a special concern for the control of ideas, mostly those ideas expressed in manuscript and printed works. The Inquisitors of Valladolid took pains to avoid the entrance of texts that were succesful abroad, but the existence of an important demand —probably due to the foundation of the Universities of Valladolid and Salamanca— decreased the efficiency of the censorship they wanted to impose. …”
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Evangelismo y sensibilidad religiosa en la Sevilla del quinientos: consideraciones acerca de la represión de los luteranos sevillanos by Michel BOEGLIN

“…</p><p>ABSTRACT: The discovery, in the autumn of 1557, of a delivery of books on Protestant propaganda in Seville, convinced inquisitors of the existence of circles that advocated doctrines in contradiction with the catholic orthodoxy redefined between 1547 and 1552 during the first Council of Trent sessions. …”
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