The Inquisition Trial of Jerónimo de Rojas, a Morisco of Toledo (1601-1603)

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50159-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 884 g

Reihe: Heterodoxia Iberica

This book includes the whole transcription of the trial of a converted Muslim (Morisco) from Toledo, condemned to die at the stake at the beginning of the 17th century. In their study of the trial, the authors address the question of how and to what extent Inquisition documents can be used as an historical source by contextualizing and analysing its multifaceted aspects as well as its protagonists and participants, victim, witnesses, and inquisitors. The authors elucidate the beliefs and practices of the culprit, situating his ordeal in the framework of Morisco life and its connections with North African Islam. By so doing they shed light on questions of Inquisitorial procedure, witnessing and testimony, the extent of confession, the effects of life in prison, the relations of trust between inmates and the consequences of isolation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

García-Arenal, Mercedes

Benitez Sanchez-Blanco, Rafael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments IX

List of IllustrationsI

Introduction

1 Jerónimo de Rojas before the Tribunal

1.1 First Stage: Defiance

1.2 Second Stage: Collapse

1.3 The Trial History of Rojas’s Family and Others Denounced by Enríquez

2 The Scene and the Protagonists

2.1 Jerónimo de Rojas

2.2 Fray Hernando de Santiago

2.3 Villarín, the Bigamist from Galicia

2.4 Francisco Enríquez, the Informer

2.5 Officers of the Inquisition

2.6 The Scene: Toledo in the Time of Rojas

3 The Moriscos

3.1 From the Conversions to the War of the Alpujarras (1501–1570)

3.2 The War of the Alpujarras

3.3 From the War of the Alpujarras to Philip III’s Early Reign

3.4 The Political Shift of Philip III’s Early Reign

4 The Inquisition

4.1 Harsh Repression by the Tribunals of Granada, Zaragoza, and Valencia

4.2 Activity of the Llerena Tribunal

4.3 The Toledo Tribunal

4.4 The Limits of the Holy Office

5 The Conversations in Prison

5.1 Life in Prison

5.2 Rojas’s Religious Beliefs and Practices

5.3 Abentute or Ibn Tuda

5.4 Al-Hajari

6 The Granadan Forgeries, Miguel de Luna, and the Religious Polemic

6.1 The Parchment and the Lead Books of the Sacromonte in Granada

6.2 Miguel de Luna

6.3 Religious Polemic

6.4 Muhamad Alguazir, Pastrana, and Ocaña

6.5 Juan Pérez

7 Secret Prisons and Letters

7.1 The Sequence of Events and Papers

7.2 The Language of the Letters and Rojas’s Knowledge of Christianity

8 Conclusions

9 The Trial Transcript

1 Introductory Note

2 Denunciation and Imprisonment

3 Rojas’s Communications and Letters

4 Witness Statements

5 Statements by Jerónimo de Rojas

6 The Accusation

7 Response to the Accusation

8 Publication of the Witness Statements

9 Response to the Publication of the Witness Statements

10 Written Defense

11 Second Publication of the Witness Statements

12 Vote on the Case

13 Torture

14 The Sentence

15 Establishment of the Date of the Crime

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Mercedes García-Arenal, Ph.D. (1979), is a Research Professor at the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) in Madrid. She is a cultural and religious historian specialised in religious minorities on which she has published and edited many books, such as The Orient in Spain. Converted Muslims, the Forged Lead Books of Granada and the Rise of Orientalism (Brill, 2013) and The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain. A Mediterranean Diaspora (Brill, 2016).

Rafael Benítez Sánchez-Blanco, Ph.D. (1976), Universidad de Valencia (Spain), is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at that university. He has published monographs, editions, articles and chapters of books on Moriscos and the Spanish Inquisition, for example Heroicas decisiones. La Monarquía Católica y los moriscos valencianos (Alfons el Màgnanim, 2001).