The Lima Inquisition : the plight of crypto-Jews in seventeenth-century Peru /
Established in Peru in 1570, the Holy Office of the Inquisition operated there until 1820, prosecuting, torturing, and sentencing alleged heretics. Ana Schaposchnik offers a deeply researched history of the Inquisition's tribunal in the capital city of Lima, with a focus on cases of crypto-Juda...
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Madison, Wisconsin :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
2015
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |