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Between Court and Confessional: The Politics of Spanish Inquisitors
Contributor(s): Lynn, Kimberly (Author)
ISBN: 1107031168     ISBN-13: 9781107031166
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $85.49  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - General
- Religion | History
Dewey: 272.209
LCCN: 2012048143
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.50 lbs) 410 pages
 
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Between Court and Confessional explores the lives of Spanish inquisitors, closely examining the careers and writings of five sixteenth- and seventeenth-century inquisitors. Kimberly Lynn considers what shaped particular inquisitors, what kinds of official experience each accumulated, and to what ends each directed his acquired knowledge and experience. The case studies examine the complex interplay of careerism and ideological commitments evident in inquisitorial activities. Whereas many studies of the Spanish Inquisition tend to depict inquisitors as faceless and interchangeable, Lynn probes the lives of individual inquisitors to show how inquisitors' operations in their social, political, religious, and intellectual worlds set the Inquisition in motion. By focusing on specific individuals, this study explains how the theory and regulations of the Inquisition were rooted in local conditions, particular disputes, and individual experiences.

Contributor Bio(s): Lynn, Kimberly: - Kimberly Lynn is an Associate Professor of Early Modern Europe in the Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University. Professor Lynn has been awarded a William J. Fulbright Fellowship to research in Spain and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies. She also won a Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar Award, as well as short-term research fellowships to the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel, Germany, and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.