Mad for God: Bartolome Sanchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete - Brossura

Nalle, Sara Tilghman

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0813920019 ISBN 13: 9780813920016

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Convinced he was the Elijah Messiah, the Spanish peasant Bartolomé Sánchez believed that God had sent him in divine retribution for the crimes committed by the Inquisition and the Church. Sánchez's vocal and intolerable religious deviance quickly landed him in the very court he believed he was sent to destroy. Fortunately for him, the first inquisitor assigned to his case came to believe that Sánchez was not guilty by virtue of insanity, and tried to collect the proof that would save his life.

For seven years, Sánchez shuttled between jails, hospitals, and his home village while his fate hung in the balance. Nalle convincingly evokes the compassion of Sánchez's first inquisitor, Pedro Cortes, as he struggled to save his prisoner's life, and argues that the Spanish, compared to other Europeans of the day, were remarkably rational and humane when dealing with the mentally ill.

A gripping tale of madness and religious conviction, Mad for God offers new historical insight into the ongoing debate over the nature of religious inspiration, insanity, and criminal responsibility.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Sara Tilghman Nalle is Associate Professor of History at William Paterson University and the author of God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650, winner of the 1993 Roland Bainton Prize.

Product Description:

Book by Nalle Sara Tilghman

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0813920019
• ISBN 13: 9780813920016
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 228