1908 AUTO DE FE AND JEW: Adler “Act Of Faith” Spanish Inquisition Executions

Description: Excellent condition. Sold as per photos. Tracked shipping. The phrase auto de fe (Act of Faith) refers to the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition or the Portuguese Inquisition had decided their punishment (that is, after the trial). The phrase also commonly occurs in English in its Portuguese form auto da fé. While the torture, the trial, and the testimony of the Inquisition were conducted in complete secrecy, the auto de fé ceremony was generally held over several hours with great pomp in a principal church or central square, in the presence of the chief dignitaries and great crowds. This little book is the fruit of two "delightful" expeditions to Spain, in the course of which Mr. Adler, hunting for literary spoil, secured various documents relating to the Inquisition, flotsam and jetsam which the d secularisation of the monasteries had scattered to the winds. Mr. Adler's primary object is to cast some light f on the history of the Marranos, or Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who were compelled to make a public profession of Christianity but continued to observe in private their er Judaie usages. The book is in no sense a set history, but? rather a series of notes with very copious lists of autos in Spain and Portugal and their dependencies; and most of it has already appeared in the pages of the Jewish Quarterly Review. But its lack of literary form compensated by the diligence and frank and refreshing .On lenthusiasm of the writer. th We have first eight short chapters of curious but rather miscellaneous information regarding the Jews of England, OS Spain, Italy, and Turkey in the fifteenth century. We learn that both Henry VIll and Charles V pressed Jewish Rabbis into their service in the controversy over Queen 20 •Katherine's divorce; that Elizabeth employed a Jew in nther negotiations with the Turk, and corresponded with ha Jewess who was Secretary to the Sultana. There is also an account of David Reubeni's mission to the Pope in sth 1522. Mr. Adler believes the mission to have been SC genuine.

Price: 60 GBP

Location: London

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