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The ‘Catalan Hermaphrodite’ and the Inquisition: Early Modern Sex and Gender on Trial

Autor Professor François Soyer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2023
This book examines the life of Maria Duran, who was born with female genitalia, but was accused of being a man and subsequently put on trial for sorcery by the Portuguese Inquisition during the 18th century. François Soyer uses Maria's story to open a window onto the world of the experience of 'transing' gender, as well as the gendered attitudes and responses to the transgression of gendered norms that were adopted by churchmen, medical practitioners and ordinary lay men and women. Drawing on the surviving (and staggeringly 736-page long) sorcery trial dossier, Soyer analyses the secretive life of an individual who actively and deliberately 'transed' gender. The dossier analysis enables insights into aspects of life so rarely recorded in early modern documents: the transgression of gender norms, transgressive sexuality and sexual violence in female religious institutions, in addition to the fears and debates about the power that the Devil could wield over the human body. The 'Catalan Hermaphrodite' and the Inquisition also reveals how the Inquisition gathered a number of doctors, surgeons and midwives to conduct careful examinations of Maria's body in general and genitals in particular. Their reports and the discussions of the inquisitors are discussed by Soyer and offer further fascinating evidence of attitudes towards sex and gender in early modern Europe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350377592
ISBN-10: 1350377597
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Sheds light on how sexual and gender nonconformity as well as the 'transing' of gender are not new, modern phenomena

Notă biografică

François Soyer is Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of several books, including Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World (2019) and Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal (2012). He is also the co-editor of Emotions in Europe 1517-1914: Revolutions, 1715-1789 (2021) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Chronology of the Life and Trial of Maria DuranList of Abbreviations MapsIntroductionPart I: The Remarkable Life of Maria Duran1. The Fugitive Wife from a Small Village in the Pyrenees 2. Maria Becomes a Soldier3. Maria Duran Travels to Lisbon4. Sex and Suspicion in the Recolhimentos of Lisbon5. The Nuns and Novices of Our Lady of Paradise6. Enter the Inquisition7. Maria on Trial8. "A Real Woman and Not a Hermaphrodite": The Anatomical Examination of Maria Duran9. Torture, Verdict and Punishment10. Maria on Display: the Auto-da-fé of 21 June 1744Part II: The Maria Duran Mystery: Transgressive Sexuality, Transing Gender and Gender Performativity in the Trial of Maria DuranEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

This is a book one cannot put down! Soyer's narrative of this extraordinary case reads as a thrilling mystery novel; the construction of the characters is flawless, the telling of the story spell-binding, the most brilliant example of microhistory since Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms