Judging Maria de Macedo: A Female Visionary and the Inquisition in Early Modern Portugal (repost)
Bryan Givens, "Judging Maria de Macedo: A Female Visionary and the Inquisition in Early Modern Portugal"
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press | ISBN 10: 0807137022 | 2011 | PDF | 296 pages | 1.4 MB
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press | ISBN 10: 0807137022 | 2011 | PDF | 296 pages | 1.4 MB
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 wonders known as the Hidden Isle. The island paradise was also the home of Sebastian, the former king of Portugal (1557-1578), who had died in battle in Morocco while on crusade in 1578.