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English Encounters with the Spanish Inquisition: Faith, Nationhood and Heresy, 1558-1604

English Encounters with the Spanish Inquisition: Faith, Nationhood and Heresy, 1558-1604

Tinsley, Teresa

Hardcover

General ChristianityGeneral World HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1350468630
ISBN13: 9781350468634
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Between 1558 and 1604, more than 400 subjects of Queen Elizabeth I found themselves in contact with the Spanish Inquisition. This book draws on the records of their experiences and testimonies to provide a fresh perspective on a crucial period of religious divergence.
Teresa Tinsley examines the varied experiences of merchants, sailors, diplomats and prisoners of war, highlighting cases of persecution, conversion, ambivalence, and cultural adaptation. Paying close attention to an impressive assemblage of original sources, Tinsley challenges exaggerated claims about the cruelty and scale of the Inquisition's actions against the English, which fed contemporary anti-Spanish propaganda and continue to colour perceptions of early modern globalisation and European colonisation today. She shows that there were witnesses, litigants and collaborators as well as defendants, not all were Protestant, very few were treated harshly and most attempted, with variable success, to bridge the Reformation gap between Elizabeth's Protestant England and Philip II's post-Tridentine Spain.

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