Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama

by Frances Levine

In 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain's northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660s, Do a Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo L pez de Mendiz bal, came under the Inquisition's scrutiny. She and her husband were tried in Mexico City for the crime of judaizante, the practice of Jewish rituals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806153369
• ISBN13: 9780806153360
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"