Intimate Stories Research Articles

Women in the Inquisition. Spain and the New World

Women in the Inquisition. Spain and the New World. Ed. Mary E. Giles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP 1999. ix+402 pages. This book is a welcome addition to a growing list of case studies and interpretations of the Inquisition that in recent years have taken us beyond the trite legends of the past, whether black or pink. As is now customary in this rising interdisciplinary field, the best of the studies contained in Women in the Inquisition (= WI) straddle history and cultural criticism. The authors range from younger scholars to seasoned practitioners in the fields of history, literature, and religious studies. They furnish micro-histories that effectively bring out of neglected archives the daily texture and intimate stories of ordinary people who were brought before Holy Office tribunals to confess perceived offenses against national-Catholic correctness in early modern Spain. The focus on women is especially apt, since the Inquisition's initial preoccupation with detecting relapsed Jewish converts taught its agents and supporters to zero in on matters of the most domestic and private sort: household activities, diet, gestures, clothing-in short, manifestations of what we would now take to be aspects of culturally distinctive performance in the private sphere, an area in which women have traditionally played a leading role. With some notable exceptions, the contributors work on women who were prosecuted by the Inquisition from the late 15th to the 17th centuries. The editor observes that although the majority of the women portrayed in this collection did not write in the sense of setting pen to paper, the records of their trials constitute a kind of text (13). This is an important insight and several of the contributors give it varying degrees of attention, but the full implications of the status of inquisitional discourse awaits more sustained analysis. Most of the authors work from manuscript sources, which range broadly from trial documents (full dossiers or pithy summaries) to post-acquittal memoirs. For many of the contributors, the act of writing about women charged or investigated by the Holy Office constitutes a search for authentic women's voices. However, the nature of the trial documents, which were produced by and for the Holy Office, make this heart-felt desire for solidarity with early modern women an elusive goal. The editor groups the fourteen studies that make up the volume under three broad headings: i. The Inquisition and Jewish Converts; 11. The Inquisition and Christian Orthodoxy; and iu. The Inquisition and the New World. This thematic sorting of the material does not quite work as intended, since conversos also figure prominently in Part u. The heading given to Part ii is problematic. The heterodoxy/orthodoxy binary in the context of the Spanish Inquisition carries too much baggage to be useful-shades of Menendez Pelayo here. Heterodoxy itself can refer to a broad class of offenses, some are confessional, but many are socio-cultural in nature. Further diminishing the value of the three rubrics is the complex nature of the cases in Parts ii and III. The study by Mary Elizabeth Perry, which appears in Part u, offers precisely the kind of exemplar we need to rethink the problem of essentialized identities, whether converso, or so-called Old Christian, Morisco, mestizo, African, etc. For it is the hybridity of the cultural scene in Habsburg Spain and its empire that clearly emerges in Perry's portrait of Maria Robles, a Morisca whose sincere but over-the-top Christian piety led to charges that she was an alumbrada. Hers is a heart-wrenching case, since Robles was one of the lucky few among the Moriscos who managed to remain in Spain fifteen years after the decrees of expulsion were issued early in the 17th century. Perry identifies the parallels between Christian alumbrados (many of whom tended to come from converso families) and Muslim Sufis: extravagant expressions of emotion, unmediated contact with the divine, and, most important, both sects appealed to women, especially those marginalized by poverty and birth (183). …

George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America.

George Washington knew little of architecture when he planned and built Mount Vernon, but he did know what he wanted in a home. This unique and lucidly written book is the intimate story of the relationship between Mount Vernon, George Washington, and all the people involved in creating what has become one of America's greatest landmarks.

New Poems of Emily Dickinson.

For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume, he presents nearly 500 new poems that he and his associates excavated from her correspondence, thereby expanding the canon of Dickinson's known poems by almost one-third and making a remarkable addition to the study of American literature. Here are new riddles and epigrams, as well as longer lyrics that have never been seen as poems before. While Shurr has reformatted passages from the letters as poetry, a practice Dickinson herself occasionally followed, no words, punctuation, or spellings have been changed. Shurr points out that these new verses have much in common with Dickinson's well-known poems: they have her typical punctuation (especially the characteristic dashes and capitalizations); they use her preferred hymn or ballad meters; and they continue her search for new and unusual rhymes. Most of all, these poems continue Dickinson's remarkable experiments in extending the boundaries of poetry and human sensibility. |This three-volume collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents 18th-century America through the intimate story of a Maryland family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll o

A stranger in her native land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians

Called Her Majesty because of her resemblance to Queen Victoria and known as measuring among the Indians whose land allotments she administered, Alice Fletcher (1838-1923) commanded respect from both friend and foe. She was the foremost woman anthropologist in the United States in the nineteenth century and instrumental in the adoption of the policy of severalty that dominated Indian affairs in the 1880s. This is the full and intimate story of a woman who, as she grew in understanding of Indian ways, came to recognize that she was the one who was alien, a stranger in her native land. Joan Mark recreates the long and active life of Alice Fletcher from diaries, correspondence, and other records, placing her achievements for the first time in a feminist perspective. Sustained by a sense of mission, Alice Fletcher challenged her society's definition of what women could be and do.

The ancestry of allergy: Being an account of the original experimental induction of hypersensitivity recognizing the contribution of Paul Portier

The Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology for 1913 was awarded to Charles Richet, French physiologist, for studies of "anaphylaxis." The earliest articles on what was actually the original experimental induction of hypersensitivity were the result of collaborative studies of Paul Portier and Charles Richet. This article presents an account of the discovery based on an extensive examination of original sources with attention to the particulars of the contributions of each of the codiscoverers. An unusually complete and intimate story of the unfolding of the discovery could be pieced together from the findings in the original sources. The contributions of Paul Portier in the experiments leading to the recognition of a relationship between hypersensitivity and immunity earned him a more prominent position in the ancestry of allergy.

Estonian Anthology. Intimate Stories of Life, Love, Labor and War of the Estonian People

Estonian Anthology. Intimate Stories of Life, Love, Labor and War of the Estonian People

The Kansas Industrial Court: An Experiment in Compulsory Arbitration

We Pledged Allegiance: A Librarian's Intimate Story of the United States Food Administration. By Edith Guerrier. Hoover Library on War, Revolution, and Peace, Miscellaneous Publication No. 1. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1941. x + 170 pp. Appendix. $2.50.) Ralph R. Fahrney Ralph R. Fahrney State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Ia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 28, Issue 4, March 1942, Page 644, https://doi.org/10.2307/1916591 Published: 01 March 1942

We Pledged Allegiance: A Librarian's Intimate Story of the United States Food Administration

We Pledged Allegiance: A Librarian's Intimate Story of the United States Food Administration

Our city councils. VI. Pittsburgh's faction‐ridden council

AbstractAn intimate story of the Pittsburgh city council, which is both “a triumph and a despair”.

Autobiography of an Androgyne. By Earl Lind (Ralph Werner—Jennie 06). New York, 1918. The Medico-Legal Journal. Pp. xiii + 265. Price $4.

First printed in 1918, Ralph Werther's ""Autobiography of an Androgyne"" charts his emerging self-understanding as a member of the ""third sex"" and documents his explorations of queer underworlds in turn-of-the-century New York City. Werther presents a sensational life narrative that begins with a privileged upper-class birth and a youthful realization of his difference from other boys. He concludes with a decision to undergo castration. Along the way, he recounts intimate stories of adolescent sexual encounters with adult men and women, escapades as a reckless ""fairie"" who trolled Brooklyn and the Bowery in search of working-class Irish and Italian immigrants, and an immersion into the subculture of male ""inverts.""This new edition also includes a critical introduction by Scott Herring that situates the text within the scientific, historical, literary, and social contexts of urban American life in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Tracing how this pioneering autobiography engages with conversations on immigration, gender, economics, metropolitan working-class culture, and the invention of homosexuality across class lines, this edition is ideal for courses on topics ranging from Victorian literature to modern American sexuality.