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
Main Authors:	Lourenço, Miguel Rodrigues, Bastias Saavedra, Manuel
Format:	Book chapters
Language:	en
Published:	Brill | Nijhoff 2022-01-01
Series:	Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds
Subjects:	Book chapters
Online Access:	https://brill.com/view/title/61032