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The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical
institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent
society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits
and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to
rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this new study, based on
extensive archival research, James E. Wadsworth challenges these
myths by focusing on the lay and clerical officials who staffed the
Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, one of Brazil's oldest,
wealthiest, and most populated colonies. He argues that the
Inquisition was an integral part of colonial society and that it
reflected and reinforced deeply held social and religious values
that crossed the Atlantic, recreated themselves in colonial Brazil,
and became powerful tools for exclusion and promotion in Brazilian
society. The Inquisition successfully appropriated widely held
social norms and manipulated social tensions to create and recreate
its own power and prestige for almost three hundred years. It
finally declined only when its capacity to socially promote its
officials diminished in the late eighteenth century. Agents of
Orthodoxy places the men who ran the Inquisition in historical
context and demonstrates that they were often motivated by social
aspirations in seeking inquisitional appointments. Beautifully
written and extensively researched, this book sheds new light on a
long-standing institution and its participants.
Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions
that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their
modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global
Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of
primary source documents which illustrate the global phenomenon of
piracy through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it:
both the pirates or privateers themselves and their victims. The
book allows us to confront our stereotypes by giving us access to
"real" pirates in a wide range of historical periods and global
regions, from ancient Greece to modern day Nigeria, unfiltered as
much as possible by authorial voice or interpretation. Global
Piracy seeks neither to romanticize nor vilify pirates, but simply
to understand them in the context of their times and the broader
world they inhabited. Departing from run-of-the-mill narratives, it
selects documents which provide new and fascinating insights into
piracy around the globe. With documents introduced by contextual
information, and supplemented by study questions, suggested reading
lists, illustrations and maps, this book is an essential companion
for anyone studying the history of piracy.
The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical
institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent
society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits
and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to
rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this new study, based on
extensive archival research, James E. Wadsworth challenges these
myths by focusing on the lay and clerical officials who staffed the
Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, one of Brazil's oldest,
wealthiest, and most populated colonies. He argues that the
Inquisition was an integral part of colonial society and that it
reflected and reinforced deeply held social and religious values
that crossed the Atlantic, recreated themselves in colonial Brazil,
and became powerful tools for exclusion and promotion in Brazilian
society. The Inquisition successfully appropriated widely held
social norms and manipulated social tensions to create and recreate
its own power and prestige for almost three hundred years. It
finally declined only when its capacity to socially promote its
officials diminished in the late eighteenth century. Agents of
Orthodoxy places the men who ran the Inquisition in historical
context and demonstrates that they were often motivated by social
aspirations in seeking inquisitional appointments. Beautifully
written and extensively researched, this book sheds new light on a
long-standing institution and its participants.
Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions
that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their
modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global
Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of
primary source documents which illustrate the global phenomenon of
piracy through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it:
both the pirates or privateers themselves and their victims. The
book allows us to confront our stereotypes by giving us access to
"real" pirates in a wide range of historical periods and global
regions, from ancient Greece to modern day Nigeria, unfiltered as
much as possible by authorial voice or interpretation. Global
Piracy seeks neither to romanticize nor vilify pirates, but simply
to understand them in the context of their times and the broader
world they inhabited. Departing from run-of-the-mill narratives, it
selects documents which provide new and fascinating insights into
piracy around the globe. With documents introduced by contextual
information, and supplemented by study questions, suggested reading
lists, illustrations and maps, this book is an essential companion
for anyone studying the history of piracy.
What happened on Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic? Who
was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do we know?
These questions were debated in the courts of Spain for decades
after 1492. Some of those who sailed with Columbus left very
different accounts, as recorded in those trial records. Their
competing voices have long been silenced by the deafening crescendo
of Columbus's own narrative-a narrative riddled with contradictions
and inconsistencies that beg to be explained. This documentary
history allows the reader to encounter the founding documents of
the Columbus story as well as the voices that dared to challenge
it-even in his own day. What these documents reveal forces us to
re-imagine Columbus and his voyage in surprising ways. Columbus and
His First Voyage brings together for the first time the two
contemporary versions of what happened on the first voyage - the
Columbian narrative and the Pinzon narrative - and embeds them in a
thorough introduction to Columbus, his first voyage, and the myths
that surround this pivotal event in the history of the modern
world.
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