Gendered Crime and Punishment: Women And/In the Hispanic Inquisitions

by Stacey Schlau

In Gendered Crime and Punishment, Stacey Schlau mines the Inquisitional archive of Spain and Latin America in order to uncover the words and actions of accused women as transcribed in the trial records of the Holy Office. Although these are mediated texts, filtered through the formulae and norms of the religious institution that recorded them, much can be learned about the prisoners' individual aspirations and experiences, as well as about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004235876
• ISBN13: 9789004235878
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"