Papers presented at an international conference held March 25-27, 1988 in Los Angeles, Calif., sponsored by the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available on the Internet.
Colonizing souls : the failure of the Indian Inquisition and the rise of penitential discipline / J. Jorge Klor de Alva -- New Spain's Inquisition for Indians from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century / Roberto Moreno de los Arcos -- The Inquisition's repression of Curanderos / Noemí Quezada -- Sorcery and eroticism in love magic / María Helena Sánchez Ortega -- Visionaries and affective spirituality during the first half of the sixteenth century / Geraldine McKendrick and Angus MacKay -- Politics, prophecy, and the Inquisition in late sixteenth-century Spain / Richard L. Kagan -- Family and patronage : the Judeo-converso minority in Spain / Jaime Contreras -- The Jew as witch : displaced aggression and the myth of the Santo Niño de la Guardia / Stephen Haliczer
On knowing other people's lives, inquisitorially and artistically / Joseph H. Silverman -- Scorched parchments and tortured memories : the "Jewishness" of the Anussim (Crypto-Jews) / Moshe Lazar -- The Inquisition and the crypto-Jewish community in colonial New Spain and New Mexico / Stanley M. Hordes -- Recent historiography of the Spanish Inquisition (1977-1988) : balance and perspective / Jesús M. De Bujanda -- Historiography of the Mexican Inquisition : evolution of interpretations and methodologies / Richard E. Greenleaf