Actas y comunicaciones del Instituto de Historia Antigua y Medieval

In memoriam Hugo Zurutuza

Comité Editorial — 2018-12-10

Las formas del conflicto religioso y de la violencia simbólica en el espacio cultural europeo (siglos XIV a XVIII): actores, escenarios, estrategias

María de la Soledad Justo (ed.)

The catholic reformation in Spain and the anti-muslim polemic: the Tridentine Decrees in the Catecismo del Sacromonte

Clara Lucía Roig — 2018-12-10

The objective of this work is to analyze the influence of the resolutions of the Council of Trent in the Catecismo del Sacromonte, a catechism for Moriscos dated from 1588 which author is an anonymous Jesuit. We use the comparative method, confronting the document with a source from the beginning of the XVIth century: the Confusión o confutación de la Secta Mahomética y del Alcorán of Juan Andrés. We begin by thinking about the relationship between the Catecismo and the particular moment in which it was written, with a Papacy that tries to impose the acknowledgment of the results of the Council of Trent in the entire world, beyond the degree of the protestant menace in each region. With the intention of understanding the reach of this influence we compare the source with another one, pretridentine and previous to the protestant Reformation, that is an anti-muslim treaty ordered by the Catholic Kings, written by a convert muslim and published in 1515.

"Valientes predicadores y operarios zelotes". Diego Torres Bollo y su Breve Relatione

María de la Soledad Justo — 2018-12-10

Diego Torres Bollo was the first Provincial of the Jesuit Assistance of Paraguay and who initiated the recognized program of reductions of the Guarani Indians. This founding in 1607 was the result of an intense internal debate about the redefinition of the tasks that the Jesuits should occupy in American lands, with the goal of reconcile the demands and cross-needs of the papacy and the Spanish monarchy.

Encounters between Saint Francisco de Javier S. J. and the Bonzos

Darío Andrés Menache — 2018-12-10

How did Javier perceive the Japanese beliefs and how did he portray their truthful exponent: the bonzos? How much influence did the historical and religious context had on his vision? This paper analyze the relationship between the Counter-Reformation context and the early Christian missions in Japan in order to comprehend the originality of Francisco de Javier’s thought about this matters.

Problems and categories on the analysis of medieval sources. Popular communication as an aprehensible action

Carolina Losada — 2018-12-10

Popular preaching and its historical sources – sermons – have became during the last decades in invaluable resources on Late Medieval and Modern culture. Since the development of the field, new theories and technics had arisen. This paper present some of the debates on the field and, connected with those, and hermeneutic on the sources. The purpose is to vindicate medieval sermon as an oral registry of communication that can be studied and understood beyond its content in order to enrich the History of pre-Gutenbergian Europe.

The devil's school: superstition in James VI's demonology

María Victoria Lallana — 2018-12-10

This article analyzes the relevance of the concept of superstition with respect to James VI of Scotland’s Daemonologie (1597), with a particular focus on Book III of the treatise. It aims to show how the use of this particular analytical model helps to understand the way spirits and folk entities are conceived. The notion of the tacit pact will be emphasized as a common denominator between the different books that compose the Daemonologie. Additionally, this interpretation allows us to link James’s work with the 1563 Witchcraft Act and the broader Calvinist conceptions regarding superstitions.

Tomás Sánchez Dávila and the construction of a Historia Sacra Carmelitarum Discalceaturum (1599-1606)

Facundo Macías — 2018-12-10

The present article examines the attempt to write a historia sacra by the Discalced Carmelite Tomás Sánchez Dávila (1564-1627). Using Teresa de Ávila (1515-1582) as an empirical reference and recent proof of the divine action among humans, Dávila connects a past of biblical-millennial dimensions with his own days to respond the urgencies of his present. However, in that construction the author introduces a modifying genitive: the historia sacra carmelitarum discalceatorum arises. In this way, Tomás blurs Teresa and proposes the Order as the real protagonist of its past with an absolute absorbing sense.

Possessed, mystic, obssessed: the case of diabolic possession of Jeanne Féry, Soeur noir from the Mons convent at the end of the XVITH century

Carlos Manuel García — 2018-12-10

The diabolical possession was a complex cultural experience very common in the early modern society. This study is oriented to exhibit a first approximation to the case of diabolic possession (mixed with characteristic elements of mysticism and obsession) that the soeur noir Jeanne Fey suffered during the years 1584 and 1585 in Mons, border of the Spanish Netherlands, corresponding this evil spiritual invasion with the violent confessional problems that Catholics and Calvinists maintained in sixteenth-century Europe.

Regulated prostitution and the jesuitic congregations

Jorge Emmanuel Soria — 2018-12-10

Thorough the early modernity, the regulated prostitution was based on a contradiction: while the practice was tolerated, women who practiced it were persecuted and criminalized. The “Compendio” of the popular missionary Jesuit Pedro de León shed light on a specific issue of this problem: the Company’s congregational practice, which sought to limit or end the activity. Although it could mean a more benevolent position on public women, it was the other side of the coin: the discipline of the female body. Both violence and segregation, as well as Jesuit congregations, responded to the discipline of women needed by the community of the faithful in a scenario of strengthening of the Confessional States.

The invencible force of (dis)agreement: Eucharistic defense in "Les epistres" of Gentien Hervet (1499-1584)

Roberto Sánchez — 2018-12-10

The letters and discourses published by the theologian and Humanist scholar Gentien Hervet around 1561 demonstrate the relevance of printed culture as a tool for the transmission of ideas. His connections with the Parisian publishing industry allowed him to attack the French Calvinists in a heated textual dispute over the sacred sacrament of the Eucharist, which was a key factor to analyze in the outbreak of continuous violence that undermined harmony in the kingdom.