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The Inquisition in Portugal and its Empire, 1536-1821
Series: - The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, Volume: 90
The Portuguese Inquisition began operating in Evora in 1536. This ecclesiastical court arrested, tried and, in extreme cases, sentenced to death thousands of individuals for their beliefs and behaviour in Portugal and across its global empire, stretching from Africa to Brazil and South and East Asia.
Drawing on extensive archival research, this book offers the first comprehensive history of the Portuguese Inquisition, from its inception to its dissolution in 1821. It illuminates the tribunal’s institutional and judicial life, including periods of crisis and intense persecution. At the heart of this study remain the stories of the victims: New Christians, Protestants, sorcerers, witches, and many others who questioned dogmas or the established social order.
Drawing on extensive archival research, this book offers the first comprehensive history of the Portuguese Inquisition, from its inception to its dissolution in 1821. It illuminates the tribunal’s institutional and judicial life, including periods of crisis and intense persecution. At the heart of this study remain the stories of the victims: New Christians, Protestants, sorcerers, witches, and many others who questioned dogmas or the established social order.
Giuseppe Marcocci, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the University of Oxford. His publications include The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2020) and the edited volume Space and Conversion in Global Perspective (Brill, 2014).
José Pedro Paiva, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor of Early Modern History and the Director of the Centre for the History of Society and Culture at the University of Coimbra. He has published extensively on the Portuguese Inquisition and religious history more broadly, and is the co-editor of The Global History of Portugal (Sussex Academic Press, 2022).
José Pedro Paiva, Ph.D. (1996), is Professor of Early Modern History and the Director of the Centre for the History of Society and Culture at the University of Coimbra. He has published extensively on the Portuguese Inquisition and religious history more broadly, and is the co-editor of The Global History of Portugal (Sussex Academic Press, 2022).
The book will be of immediate interest to all academic libraries purchasing History books, as well as to specialists in the history of the Inquisition and the early modern Iberian world. Individual chapters will likely be included in undergraduate and graduate course syllabuses.