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"...[T]he fourteen papers in WOMEN IN THE INQUISITION: SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD, edited by Mary Giles, are based on the proceedings of the trials and have scholarly pretensions. Covering both sides of the Atlantic from the 15th to the 17th century, they include cases of women charged with Judaizing, alumbradismo, blasphemy and bigamy. The idea in itself is promising, because of the prominence of women in the religious movements of the time....[yet] the purpose of the book is far more polemical...."Giles, Mary E. is the author of 'Women in the Inquisition Spain and the New World', published 1998 under ISBN 9780801859328 and ISBN 0801859328.
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