Do�a Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama

Teresa Aguilera y Roche, wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo Laopez de Mendizaabal, was the only woman from New Mexico ever tried by the Inquisition for the crime of secretly practicing Jewish rituals. Doana Teresa's arrest, trial, and eventual exoneration shed light on the social fabric of seventeenth-century Santa Fe as well as the dangers of non-conformity on even the farthest frontiers of Spanish America. Accusing the governor and his wife of crypto-Judaism, Levine argues, had more to do with rival politicians and clergy that used the Inquisition to silence opposition than actual heretical behavior--Propvided by publisher.

• | Author: Frances Levine Ph.D.
• | Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: July 14, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0806153369
• | ISBN-13: 9780806153360