Public Call - Thematic Dossier Proposal for Mnemosine Magazine - UFCG
2020-11-18
The Inquisition in focus, two centuries after its extinction: Structures, characters,
victims and possibilities for analysis Angelo Adriano Faria de Assis (UFV) and Marcus Vinícius Reis (UNIFESSPA) In 2021, it commemorates the two hundred years of the end of the Portuguese Inquisition,
an institution that throughout its 285 years of operation, which began in 1536, thought it
was responsible for ensuring Catholic purity, persecuting and prosecuting those who, in
some sense, threatened the Church, whether in the kingdom, or in its domains, extended,
beyond the metropolis, between the south of America and the ends of Asia. With the Catholic
monopoly in the Portuguese world, each and every individual became subject to inquisitorial
control. In Brazil, for example, the Holy Office worked by sending visits and creating,
over time, a capillary network of representatives, such as family members and commissioners.
If the suspects of Judaism were the main victims, other behaviors considered to be deviant
also filled the pages of confessions, denunciations and processes of the Court of the Holy
Office: bigaments, solicitors, deviant sexual behaviors of all kinds, offenses and questions
about symbols and dogmas Christians, magical-religious practices, in short: an extensive
list of guilt that, in the end, put everyone (although some more than others) under
suspicion.
In this dossier, we invite specialists and those interested in the subject to discuss the
different aspects of the Court, such as: its structure and functioning; employees and
performance; the victims and the alleged guilt; case studies; judgments, punishments and
procedural sources; the imaginary of the time and later on the Inquisition and everything
around it; literary, iconographic and filmic representations; critics and supporters of
the Holy Office; victims and collaborators of their persecutory action; the developments
of the Inquisition in the current world; classical historiography and new perspectives of
analysis. Finally, different themes and possibilities for thinking about the Inquisition
and its characters. It is good to emphasize, historiography has never looked so much and
forms so diverse on the subject. In the pandemic world (in the most diverse senses) in which we live, when intolerance is
unveiled and threatens the rights and respect for others, nothing more current than
thinking about how these issues were faced in other contexts, and how the cure of this
problem was achieved. blindness that excluded in the name of faith. After all, it is
necessary to understand that it is possible and necessary to resist, always. Angelo Adriano Faria de Assis - Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) Marcus Vinicius Reis - University of the South and Southeast of Pará (UNIFESSPA)
victims and possibilities for analysis Angelo Adriano Faria de Assis (UFV) and Marcus Vinícius Reis (UNIFESSPA) In 2021, it commemorates the two hundred years of the end of the Portuguese Inquisition,
an institution that throughout its 285 years of operation, which began in 1536, thought it
was responsible for ensuring Catholic purity, persecuting and prosecuting those who, in
some sense, threatened the Church, whether in the kingdom, or in its domains, extended,
beyond the metropolis, between the south of America and the ends of Asia. With the Catholic
monopoly in the Portuguese world, each and every individual became subject to inquisitorial
control. In Brazil, for example, the Holy Office worked by sending visits and creating,
over time, a capillary network of representatives, such as family members and commissioners.
If the suspects of Judaism were the main victims, other behaviors considered to be deviant
also filled the pages of confessions, denunciations and processes of the Court of the Holy
Office: bigaments, solicitors, deviant sexual behaviors of all kinds, offenses and questions
about symbols and dogmas Christians, magical-religious practices, in short: an extensive
list of guilt that, in the end, put everyone (although some more than others) under
suspicion.
In this dossier, we invite specialists and those interested in the subject to discuss the
different aspects of the Court, such as: its structure and functioning; employees and
performance; the victims and the alleged guilt; case studies; judgments, punishments and
procedural sources; the imaginary of the time and later on the Inquisition and everything
around it; literary, iconographic and filmic representations; critics and supporters of
the Holy Office; victims and collaborators of their persecutory action; the developments
of the Inquisition in the current world; classical historiography and new perspectives of
analysis. Finally, different themes and possibilities for thinking about the Inquisition
and its characters. It is good to emphasize, historiography has never looked so much and
forms so diverse on the subject. In the pandemic world (in the most diverse senses) in which we live, when intolerance is
unveiled and threatens the rights and respect for others, nothing more current than
thinking about how these issues were faced in other contexts, and how the cure of this
problem was achieved. blindness that excluded in the name of faith. After all, it is
necessary to understand that it is possible and necessary to resist, always. Angelo Adriano Faria de Assis - Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) Marcus Vinicius Reis - University of the South and Southeast of Pará (UNIFESSPA)
