Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition

Migrants, Converts and Brokers in Early Modern Iberia

Thomas O'Connor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-69094-7 (ISBN)

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This book explores the activities of early modern Irish migrants in Spain, particularly their rather surprising association with the Spanish Inquisition. Pushed from home by political, economic and religious instability, and attracted to Spain by the wealth and opportunities of its burgeoning economy and empire, the incoming Irish fell prey to the Spanish Inquisition. For the inquisitors, the Irish, as vassals of Elizabeth I, were initially viewed as a heretical threat and suffered prosecution for Protestant heresy. However, for most Irish migrants, their dual status as English vassals and loyal Catholics permitted them to adapt quickly to provide brokerage and intermediary services to the Spanish state, mediating informally between it and Protestant jurisdictions, especially England. The Irish were particularly successful in forging an association with the Inquisition to convert incoming Protestant soldiers, merchants and operatives for useful service in Catholic Spain. As both victims and agents of the Inquisition, the Irish emerge as a versatile and complex migrant group. Their activities complicate our view of early modern migration and raise questions about the role of migrant groups and their foreign networks in the core historical narratives of Ireland, Spain and England, and in the history of their connections. Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition throws new light on how the Inquisition worked, not only as an organ of doctrinal police, but also in its unexpected role as a cross-creedal instrument of conversion and assimilation.

Thomas O'Connor teaches history in Maynooth University, Ireland. He has authored several works on the Irish abroad, including a book on Irish Jansenists, and edited or co-edited four volumes of essays on the Irish in Europe. Currently co-editing two collections on Catholic colleges abroad, he is editor of Archivium Hibernicum and directs Maynoooth's Irish in Europe Project.

PART I: SIXTEENTH CENTURY
1. The European Context For Irish Migrant Mobility
2. Irish Merchants And The Inquisition
3. Irish Clergy On The Move
PART II: SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
4. Diversifying Migrant Roles
5. The Irish In Spanish America
6. Inquisitorial Intrigue And The Mexican Irish
PART III: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
7. Irish Soldiers And The Inquisition, 1700–1750
8. Eighteenth-Century Mercantile Diaspora
9. Irish Money And Industry In Spain
10. Gendering The Migrant Experience

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	XV, 280 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	assimilation • collusion • Conversion • Eighteenth Century • Europe • Inquisition • Irish Diaspora • Migrants • seventeenth century • Spain • Trade
ISBN-10	1-349-69094-5 / 1349690945
ISBN-13	978-1-349-69094-7 / 9781349690947
Zustand	Neuware