EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (EJSS)
“LIFE STATEMENTS” OF PEOPLE CONVICTED BY THE INQUISITION IN NEW SPAIN
E-ISSN: 4899-5667
P-ISSN: 1450-2267
DOI: https://iigdpublishers.com/article/16
Some records from the Inquisition in New Spain contain a large amount of “life statements”, short biographical narrations about people brought before the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition. The aim of this article is to determine if these statements, along with any additional information they include, constitute “life histories” as they are conceived in the autobiographical method. Based on the characteristics of these records, we present several ways to reshape them as life histories, and we emphasize their importance for the valuable information they provide about their ideological and social historical context, while also allowing us to approach different micro historical aspects of the daily lives of people living during the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which we can hardly learn about through panoramic views of history.
Edelmira Ramírez Leyva
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