Butterflies Will Burn - Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico

Drawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in Andalucia, seat of Spain's colonial apparatus, and in the viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico), its first and largest American colony.

Summary

Drawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in Andalucía, seat of Spain's colonial apparatus, and in the vice

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• Authors: Federico Garza Carvajal, Carvajal Federico Garza, Federico Garza Carvajal
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2003
• EAN: 9780292702219
• ISBN: 978-0-292-70221-9
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 212 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 435 g
• Series: University of Texas Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries