In Defence of the Faith : Joaquim Marques de Araújo, a Comissário in the Age of Inquisitional Decline.
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- 9780773588134
- BX1733.B6 -- W33 2013eb
Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Portuguese Orthography, Currency, and the Inquisition -- Abbreviations -- 1 Setting the Stage for an Experiential Microhistory -- 2 In the Name of the Holy Office: Comissários in Pernambuco -- 3 A Life and Career in Focus -- 4 A Plague of Bigamy -- 5 Of Libertines and Diabolical Doctrines -- 6 Suspended in the Agony of Decay -- 7 The Zeal of the Pharisee -- 8 The End of an Era - The End of a Career -- Appendix: Comissários from the Bishopric of Pernambuco, 1692-1821 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Recounting an insider's perspective of the turbulent historical currents of late eighteenth-century Brazil.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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