A Female Visionary and the Inquisition in Early Modern Portugal
by
Bryan Givens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
On February 20, 1665, the Inquisition of Lisbon arrested Maria de Macedo, the wife of a midlevel official of the Portuguese Treasury, after she revealed during a deposition that, since she was ten years old, an enchanted Moor had frequently "taken" her to a magical castle in the legendary land of...