Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain
by
Georgina Dopico Black
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
In Perfect Wives, Other Women Georgina Dopico Black examines the role played by women’s bodies—specifically the bodies of wives—in Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. In her quest to show how both the body and soul of the married woman became the site of anxious inquiry, Dopico...