Ideology and Inquisition: The World of the Censors in Early Mexico Book

Acknowledgments ix

Note on Orthography and Names xiii

Introduction 1

Part I Theories of Inquisitional Authority

1 Longue Durée Concerns 19

2 Medieval and Early Modern Precedents 30

3 Theories of Adjudication 65

Part II Practice of Censure in Mexico

4 The Salamanca Connection 93

5 The Early Inquisitions, 1525-71 104

6 The Holy Office Established, 1571-90 134

7 The Ebb of the Holy Office, 1591-1640 164

Part III Censors and Their Worlds

8 Lucre and Connections 201

9 Cordon Sanitaire: Efforts and Failures of Book Censorship 226

Conclusion 247

Appendix 1 Inquisitional Trials 257

Appendix 2 Censors 261

Appendix 3 Inquisitors 274

Notes 277

Bibliography 319

Index 347