Good faith and truthful ignorance : a case of transatlantic bigamy / Alexandra Parma Cook & Noble David Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Alexandra Parma.

Contributor:

Cook, Noble David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noguerol de Ulloa, Francisco, active 16th century--Trials, litigation, etc.

Noguerol de Ulloa, Francisco.

Bigamy--Spain--History.

Bigamy.

Latin America--History--To 1600.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press, 1991.

Summary:

Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed to settle into a life of leisure. Instead, he was charged with bigamy and illegal shipment of silver, was arrested and imprisoned. Francisco’s first wife (thought long dead) had filed suit in Spain against her renegade husband.So begins the labyrinthine legal tale and engrossing drama of an explorer and his two wives, skillfully reconstructed through the expert and original archival research of Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Drawing on the remarkable records from the trial, the narrative of Francisco’s adventures provides a window into daily life in sixteenth-century Spain, as well as the mentalité and experience of conquest and settlement of the New World. Told from the point of view of the conquerors, Francisco’s story reveals not only the lives of the middle class and minor nobility but also much about those at the lower rungs of the social order and relations between the sexes.In the tradition of Carlo Ginzberg’s The Cheese and the Worms and Natalie Zemon Davis’ The Return of Martin Guerre, Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance illuminates an historical period—the world of sixteenth-century Spain and Peru—through the wonderful and unusual story of one man and his two wives.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps

Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue. Justice Be Fulfilled

THE INDIES

I. She Who Died

II. Hardship and Risk

III. Neither Rectitude nor Tranquility

IV. The Healthiest in Peru

V. This City Is Traitorous

VI. This Is the Head

VII. Such Little Penitence

VIII. Kissed Her on the Cheek

IX. The Crown Jewel

x. They Would Kill Me

XI. Silver Common as Copper

XII. On the First Ship

XIII. I Promise You

XIV. Relieve My Conscience

xv. Used Force

XVI. Justice Will Not Be Lost

XVII. She Should Receive

XVIII. No Case Is So Expensive

XIX. In Truthful Ignorance

THE TRIAL

XX. He Should Be Jailed

XXI. In Search of the Fugitive

XXII. I Have Presented Myself

XXIII. Are You Married?

XXIV. This Claim

xxv. Foul Odors and Vapors

XXVI. I Consent

XXVII. No Hope of Survival

XXVIII. Give Me the City

XXIX. A Wise Man

XXX. Shock and Great Sadness

XXXI. Never Forgive the Nuns

XXXII. He and She Knowing

XXXIII. Married Life Together

XXXIV. Compel and Force

XXXV. Leave the House

XXXVI. Contrary to the Truth

XXXVII. Shall Not Meet

XXXVIII. Carnal Intercourse

XXXIX. To Sin Mortally

FATEFUL DECISIONS

XL. The Principal Houses

XLI. I Am Despoiled

XLII. And Gave Freedom

XLIII. Perpetual Memory

XLIV. Carry the Name

XLV. Interred in My Chapel

XLVI. From the Estate

XLVII. He Had Consummated

XLVIII. Has Not Fulfilled

XLIX. As Good Brothers

Epilogue. Treasures Upon Earth

Glossary

Currency and Measures

Chronology

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822396895

0822396890

OCLC:

644089466