Críticas ao Santo Ofício português e a defesa aos cristãos novos no memorial "Notícias Recônditas do modo de proceder da inquisição com os seus presos"

Abstract

Documents that have under theme aspects involving the Inquisition have great relevance to new thinking about the Inquisition forward the changes in modernity itself, revealing a number of different elements for socio-cultural studies, unveiling trajectories, intentions, atypical subjects and situations. The most distinguished social classes are led experiences in this documentary corpus, produced under a series of movements, interspersed with repression and resistance, revealing the quality of institutional performance of inquisitions. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the critical discourse on this memorial entitled "recondite News from the procedures of the Inquisition with their prisoners," for the Pope Clement X, and to understand the aspect of tolerance in modern times, present in several passages of the document related to the defense made to said new Christians based on ideas that were intended to change the inquisitorial procedures.