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The Tribunal of the Inquisition was organized in Spanish America during the first century of the conquest and colonization. Their purpose was to check the religious and moral life of the inhabitants of the New World, excluding the native peoples. Due to their special legal status, missionaries were...
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2012
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| Sumario: | The Tribunal of the Inquisition was organized in Spanish America during the first century of the conquest and colonization. Their purpose was to check the religious and moral life of the inhabitants of the New World, excluding the native peoples. Due to their special legal status, missionaries were in control of their behaviour. The main task of the Inquisition was related to religious matters, the safeguard of Christian orthodoxy, including marriage and sexuality. Both in Spain and Spanish America, not legally accepted sexual practices were harshly repressed, specially male homosexuality. In the territory of Tierra Firme, now Venezuela, dependent during the colonial period of the Tribunal of the Inquisition from Cartagena, the prosecution of this unlawful sexual practices had the colaboration of church and civil authorities. Even if it has not been possible to find much information in the archives, local situation can be described and some hypotheses established. |
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