The Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians 1536-1765BRILL, 2001 - 402 pagina's "The Marrano Factory" argues that the Portuguese Inquisition's stated intention of extirpating heresies and purifying Portuguese Catholicism was a monumental hoax; the true purpose of the Holy Office was the fabrication rather than the destruction of "Judaizers." The caste or "race" of the New Christians was in reality synonymous with the Portuguese mercantile middle class which conservative Portuguese society would not tolerate. Most or nearly all of the New Christian Inquisitorial victims (some 40,000 between 1540 and 1765) were unremarkable Catholics who often had minimal Jewish ancestry. The Portuguese Inquisitorial procedure was not designed to distinguish between guilt and innocence, but considered any defendant, once categorized a New Christian, a Judaizer. First published in Portuguese in 1969, this is the only work by Antonio Jose Saraiva available in English and the only single-volume history devoted primarily to the working of the Portuguese Inquisition, a most lucid and compact survey. It presents Saraiva's 1975 revised history and analysis of the Portuguese Inquisition; a 1971 interview with Professor Israel Salvator Revah; Saraiva's dialogues and Revah's reply of the same year; both scholars' letters to the "Diario de Lisboa," Footnotes and introductions have been expanded. A brief survey of the Portuguese Inquisition in Goa, India, as well as a list of Portuguese kings and Inquisitors-general and an up-to-date bibliography have been added. |
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Introduction to the English Edition | ix |
Introduction | xxiii |
Illustrations 118 | 1 |
Why and How the Inquisition was Introduced | 19 |
The Portuguese Inquisitorial Trial | 43 |
Inside Information Noticias Reconditas | 66 |
Three Specimen Trial Records | 84 |
What was a Public AutodaFé? | 100 |
The King the Inquisitors and the Merchants | 192 |
How and Why the New Christians Petered | 218 |
Polemical debate on Inquisition | 235 |
Dialogue on the SilvaRévah Interview | 264 |
The Portuguese New Christians and | 295 |
The Portuguese Inquisition in Goa India | 342 |
Report by Inquisitor General Francisco | 354 |
A Plea to King João IV for the Reinstatement | 375 |
Cleanness of Blood | 116 |
People of the Nation or Men of Commerce | 130 |
Is There Such a Thing as a New Christian | 156 |
The Inquisition as an Institution and as | 173 |
Bibliography | 381 |
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About António José Saraiva 403 | |
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