On Gentilidade as a Religious Offence: A Specificity of the Portuguese Inquisition in Asia?
From the 1620s on, inquisitors in Goa referred ever more frequently to ‘gentilidade’ to name a type of religious offence perpetrated by local Christians in the Estado da Índia. This contribution proposes that the notion of ‘gentilidade’ employed by the inquisitors was a consequence of the overwhelmi...
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| Published in: | Norms beyond Empire: Law-Making and Local Normativities in Iberian Asia, 1500-1800 |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Book chapters |
| Language: | en |
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Brill | Nijhoff
2022-01-01
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| Series: | Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds |
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| Online Access: | https://brill.com/view/title/61032 |