Charlatan in the Backlands: Inquisition and Imposture in Colonial Brazil

Wadsworth, James E.

doi:10.1353/lbr.2012.0007

Luso-Brazilian Review

2012

DOI: 10.1353/lbr.2012.0007

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Charlatan in the Backlands: Inquisition and Imposture in Colonial Brazil

James E. Wadsworth¹

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“…33 I have also used them to explore imposture and how and why it both succeeded and failed. 34 Scholars are only really limited by their imaginations and their willingness to interrogate these records.…”

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Historiography of the Structure and Functioning of the Portuguese Inquisition in Colonial Brazil

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Few people outside of Portugal and Brazil know that the Inquisition reached its tentacles across the Atlantic and took hold in Portugal's Brazilian colonies. Not only did it take hold, but it played a significant role in the formation of Luso-Brazilian society and the exercise of power in the colonies. Research on the structure and functioning of the Inquisition in Brazil continues to demonstrate that this institution and the records that it kept can tell us much about the creation, use and abuse of power, daily life, social hierarchies, sexuality, concepts of honor and prestige, ethnic discrimination, and competing forms of religiosity.

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Charlatan in the Backlands: Inquisition and Imposture in Colonial Brazil

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