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Heterodoxy, Gender, And The Brazilian Inquisition: Patterns In Religion In The 1590s, Carole A. Myscofski
Heterodoxy, Gender, And The Brazilian Inquisition: Patterns In Religion In The 1590s, Carole A. Myscofski
Carole Myscofski
In 1591, the Portuguese Inquisition visited Salvador, the colonial capital of Brazil. In the course of that and the following year, 80 men and 38 women confessed their sins during two periods of grace, before the tribunal of Visitor General, Notary, and Bailiff (and their Secretary). While the men and women who came before the tribunal to confess shared an understanding of public shame and personal responsibility, they nonetheless diverged in the crimes they admitted and in their attitudes toward their moral duty. This article analyzes the pattern of similarities and differences in men's and women's confessions and relates that …