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more information – www.cambridge.org/9781107031166 BetweenCourtandConfessional ThePoliticsofSpanishInquisitors Between Court and Confessional explores the lives of Spanish inquis- itors, closely examining the careers and writings of five sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuryinquisitors.KimberlyLynnconsiderswhatshaped particularinquisitors,thekindsofofficialexperienceeachaccumulated, andtowhatendseachdirectedhisacquiredknowledgeandexperience. Thecasestudiesexaminethecomplexinterplayofcareerismandideo- logical 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 showhowtheiroperationsintheirsocial,political,religious,andintel- lectual 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 individualexperiences. KimberlyLynnisanassociateprofessorofearlymodernEuropeinthe Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University. ProfessorLynnhasbeenawardedaWilliamJ.FulbrightFellowshipfor researchinSpainandanAndrewW.MellonFellowshipinHumanistic Studies.ShealsowonaPhilanthropicEducationalOrganizationScholar Award,aswellasshort-termresearchfellowshipstotheHerzogAugust Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and the Folger Shakespeare LibraryinWashington,D.C. Between Court and Confessional The Politics of Spanish Inquisitors KIMBERLY LYNN cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107031166 ©KimberlyLynn2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Lynn,Kimberly. Betweencourtandconfessional:thepoliticsofSpanishInquisitors/KimberlyLynn. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-03116-6 1. Inquisition–Spain. I. Title. bx1735.l96 2013 2720.20946–dc23 2012048143 isbn978-1-107-03116-6Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofurlsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredto inthispublicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch Websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ForJonathan, senzaparoledipiù Contents ListofFigures pageviii Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii ANoteonLanguage xv Introduction:ArbitersofFaith,AdministratorsofEmpire 1 1. VisitingtheFlock:ThePastoralAgendaofCristóbalFernández deValtodano 47 2. WritingtheInquisition:TheTrialsofDiegodeSimancas 88 3. CourtingtheKing,CourtingthePope:LuisdePáramobetween SpainandItaly 140 4. FallingfromGrace:TheDisenchantmentsofJuanAdamdela Parra 191 5. NegotiatingtheCatholicMonarchy:TheTransatlantic ManeuveringofJuandeMañozcayZamora 238 6. BuildingCareers,MakingaLegalCulture:Towardan AppraisalofInquisitorialOffice 294 Epilogue:TheAfterlifeofSpanishInquisitors 333 Bibliography 343 Index 377 vii Figures Map1.SpanishInquisitionTribunalsinthe SeventeenthCentury pagexvi Map2.SpanishInquisitionTribunalsandNotableCities inItaly xvii Map3.InquisitionTribunalsintheViceroyaltiesofNew SpainandPeru xviii Figure1.EngravingofDiegodeSimancas,Parrino(1692) 102 Figure2.ChapeloftheHolySpirit,Cathedral,Córdoba 122 Figure3.Detail,ChapeloftheHolySpirit 123 Figure4.PaintingofChristCrucifiedandtheThree SimancasBrothers 124 Figure5.PaintingoftheBaptismofJesus,ChapeloftheHolySpirit 125 Figure6.TheCathedralofMexicoandtheCrossofMañozca 291 Figure7.PortraitofJuandeMañozca 292 viii
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