Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain

Ed. Anne J. Cruz and Mary Elizabeth Perry

Explores the modes of repression and attempts at social control in Counter-Reformation Spain. Topics of discussion include theater, sermons, religious festivals, catechism, and inquisistorial blood statues.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain

Anne J. Cruz and Mary Elizabeth Perry

  1. “Christianization” in New Castile: Catechism, Communion, Mass, and Confirmation in the Toledo Archbishopric, 1540–1650

    Jean Pierre Dedieu

  2. A Saint for All Seasons: The Cult of San Julián

    Sara T. Nalle

  3. Religious Oratory in a Culture of Control

    Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol

  4. The Moriscos and Circumcision

    Bernard Vincent

  5. Aldermen and Judaizers: Cryptojudaism, Counter-Reformation, and Local Power

    Jaime Contreras

  6. Magdalens and Jezebels in Counter-Reformation Spain

    Mary Elizabeth Perry

  7. La bella malmaridada: Lessons for the Good Wife

    Anne J. Cruz

  8. Saint Teresa, Demonologist

    Alison Weber

  9. Woman as Source of “Evil” in Counter-Reformation Spain

    María Helena Sánchez Ortega

  10. On the Concept of the Spanish Literary Baroque

    John R. Beverley

Afterword: The Subject of Control

Anthony J. Cascardi