Silencing the Voices
Finding Conversas in the Inquisitorial Records
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14713753 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ivana Arsić (0000-0003-4767-8559, Institute of Social Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0353-1589 • E-ISSN: 2334-8801 |
| Publisher | University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy - Department of Ethnology and Anthropology (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21301/eap.v18i2.10 |
| OpenAlex | W4385301654 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The past decades have generated much discussion by archivists and historians surrounding the claim that archives and written documents on women’s lives cannot be examined separately since archives play crucial roles within the conceptual framework of women’s history. By researching women’s experiences preserved in archives, it has been demonstrated that their voices were frequently obscured within archival data. In order to reconstruct the lives of women in history, this paper will attempt to address quantitative, qualitative and methodological challenges that arise when power silences the voices of Judeo-Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) from the early modern crowns of Castile and Aragon. By unearthing Conversas’ religious experiences from written sources, mainly inquisitorial dossiers, and by applying theoretical framework defined by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, the author suggests that Conversas’ voices were silenced at four stages: first, when the sources were written; second, when these documents were assembled; third, when narratives were created; and finally, when history was written by historians
Archaeology · Art · Judaism · Literature · Narrative · Order (exchange) · Power (physics) · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Latin American history and culture
Women, Gender, and Medieval Historians
Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines
Silencing the Past
Jewish women and apostasy in the medieval crown of Aragon, c. 1300–1391
Reading Against the Grain, Readings of Substitution
Aproximación a la documentación judicial inquisitorial conservada en el Archivo Histórico Nacional
From the Door of His Tent
Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method
Public Activities of Catalan Jewish Women
The Historian as Inquisitor
The Spanish Inquisition
Inquisition and Power
Finding Fatima, a Slave Woman of Early Modern Spain
Archives, records, and power
Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile
Mass Conversion and Genealogical Mentalities
A History of the Jews in Christian Spain
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |