Inquisition and society in the kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834 / Stephen Haliczer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haliczer, Stephen, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inquisition--Spain--Valencia (Province).

Inquisition.

Valencia (Spain : Province)--Church history.

Valencia (Spain : Province).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1990]

Summary:

Stephen Haliczer has mined rich documentary sources to produce the most comprehensive and enlightening picture yet of the Inquisition in Spain. The kingdom of Valencia occupies a uniquely important place in the history of the Spanish Inquisition because of its large Muslim and Jewish populations and because it was a Catalan kingdom, more or less "occupied" by the despised Castilians who introduced the Inquisition. Haliczer underscores the intensely regional nature of the Valencian tribunal. He shows how the prosecution of religious deviants, the recruitment and professional activity of Inquisitors and officials, and the relations between the Inquisition and the majority Old Christian population all clearly reflect the place and the society. A great series of pogroms swept over Spain during the summer of 1391. Jewish communities were attacked and the Jews either massacred or forced to convert. More than ninety percent of the victims of the Valencian Inquisition a century later were descendants of those who chose conversion, the conversos. Haliczer argues convincingly against those who see all the conversos as "secret Jews." He finds, on the contrary, that a wide range of religious beliefs and practices existed among them and that some were even able to assimilate into Old Christian society by becoming familiares of the Inquisition itself. Nevertheless, it was controversy over the sincerity of the converted which spawned the first proposals for the establishment of a Spanish national Inquisition. That very same controversy, persisting in the writings of history, may be resolved by Haliczer's stimulating discoveries. Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia is a major contribution to the lively field of Inquisition studies, combining institutional history of the tribunal with socioreligious history of the kingdom. The many case histories

included in the narrative give both Valencian society and the Inquisition very human faces. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

I. Between Monarchy and Kingdom: The Tribunal in Regional Politics

II. Judicial Procedures and Financial Structure

III. Inquisitors and Officials

IV. The Familiares and Unsalaried Officials

V. The Converted Jews: From Persecution to Assimilation

VI. The Moriscos

VII. Illuminism, Erasmianism, and Protestantism: The Problem of Religious Dissent

VIII. The Inquisition in the Post-Tridentine Era

IX. Decline and Abolition of the Holy Office in Valencia

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-37789-3

OCLC:

1438670085