Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal write by Francois Soyer. This book was released on 2012-08-27. Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using new inquisitorial sources, this study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early modern Iberian World and the self-perception of individuals whose behaviour, whether consciously or unconsciously, flouted social and sexual conventions.
Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal
Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal write by François Soyer. This book was released on 2012. Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions conducted a number of trials against individuals accused by members of their communities of being of the other gender - men accused of being women and women accused of being men - or even hermaphrodites. Using new inquisitorial sources, this study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early modern Iberian World. It throws light upon the manner in which the Inquisition, medical practitioners and the wider society in Spain and Portugal responded to transgenderism and on the self-perception of individuals whose behaviour, whether consciously or unconsciously, flouted these social and sexual conventions.
The Catalan Hermaphrodite and the Inquisition
The Catalan Hermaphrodite and the Inquisition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Catalan Hermaphrodite and the Inquisition write by François Soyer. This book was released on 2023-10-19. The Catalan Hermaphrodite and the Inquisition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the life of Maria Duran, who was born with female genitalia, but was accused of being a man and subsequently put on trial for sorcery by the Portuguese Inquisition during the 18th century. François Soyer uses Maria's story to open a window onto the world of the experience of 'transing' gender, as well as the gendered attitudes and responses to the transgression of gendered norms that were adopted by churchmen, medical practitioners and ordinary lay men and women. Drawing on the surviving (and staggeringly 736-page long) sorcery trial dossier, Soyer analyses the secretive life of an individual who actively and deliberately 'transed' gender. The dossier analysis enables insights into aspects of life so rarely recorded in early modern documents: the transgression of gender norms, transgressive sexuality and sexual violence in female religious institutions, in addition to the fears and debates about the power that the Devil could wield over the human body. The 'Catalan Hermaphrodite' and the Inquisition also reveals how the Inquisition gathered a number of doctors, surgeons and midwives to conduct careful examinations of Maria's body in general and genitals in particular. Their reports and the discussions of the inquisitors are discussed by Soyer and offer further fascinating evidence of attitudes towards sex and gender in early modern Europe.
Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire
Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire write by Francois Soyer. This book was released on 2014-03-06. Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book charts the history and influence of the most vitriolic and successful anti-Semitic polemic ever to have been printed in the early modern Hispanic world and offers the first critical edition and translation of the text into English. First printed in Madrid in 1674, the Centinela contra judíos (“Sentinel against the Jews”) was the work of the Franciscan Francisco de Torrejoncillo, who wrote it to defend the mission of the Spanish Inquisition, to call for the expansion of discriminatory racial statutes and, finally, to advocate in favour of the expulsion of all the descendants of converted Jews from Spain and its empire. Francisco de Torrejoncillo combined the existing racial, theological, social and economic strands within Spanish anti-Semitism to demonize the Jews and their converted descendants in Spain in a manner designed to provoke strong emotional responses from its readership.
Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain write by . This book was released on 2020-09-07. Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women. Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.
