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Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition - Migrants, Converts and Brokers in Early Modern Iberia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition - Migrants, Converts and Brokers in Early Modern Iberia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book explores the activities of early modern Irish migrants in
Spain, particularly their rather surprising association with the
Spanish Inquisition. Pushed from home by political, economic and
religious instability, and attracted to Spain by the wealth and
opportunities of its burgeoning economy and empire, the incoming
Irish fell prey to the Spanish Inquisition. For the inquisitors,
the Irish, as vassals of Elizabeth I, were initially viewed as a
heretical threat and suffered prosecution for Protestant heresy.
However, for most Irish migrants, their dual status as English
vassals and loyal Catholics permitted them to adapt quickly to
provide brokerage and intermediary services to the Spanish state,
mediating informally between it and Protestant jurisdictions,
especially England. The Irish were particularly successful in
forging an association with the Inquisition to convert incoming
Protestant soldiers, merchants and operatives for useful service in
Catholic Spain. As both victims and agents of the Inquisition, the
Irish emerge as a versatile and complex migrant group. Their
activities complicate our view of early modern migration and raise
questions about the role of migrant groups and their foreign
networks in the core historical narratives of Ireland, Spain and
England, and in the history of their connections. Irish Voices from
the Spanish Inquisition throws new light on how the Inquisition
worked, not only as an organ of doctrinal police, but also in its
unexpected role as a cross-creedal instrument of conversion and
assimilation.
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