ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SANBENITO
From Spanish San Benito Saint Benedict, an ironical allusion to its likeness to the Benedictine scapular.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SANBENITO»
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The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614
She went to the auto with a candle and a sanbenito. She was exiled ten leagues
from the sea and the water's edge for the rest of her life, with the confiscation of
her goods. Reconciled for Mosaic Law Diego Alvarez, Portuguese, silk-weaver, ...
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Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011
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The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820: A Documentary History
He was condemned for his bad confessions to wear a habit or the sanbenito and
to perpetual imprisonment, along with a sentence of four years in the galleys as a
rower without a salary. The sanbenito should be taken off of him when he ...
4
The Other Within: The Marranos : Split Identity and Emerging ...
Sancho is made to wear the dreaded sanbenito, the humiliating garb worn by
convicts of the Inquisition, and to put on the head-cover that, Cervantes says
explicitly, "penitentiaries of the Holy Office use to carry." Dressed in this apparel,
the ...
5
Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity
In Spain and Portugal penitents wore a sanbenito (or sambenito), often with a St
Andrews Cross on its front and back, together with a coroza – a pointed paper hat
or dunce cap. Tomas Treviño de Sobremonte, arrested in Mexico in 1625 for ...
Miriam Eliav-Feldon, 2012
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The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite
ishment was the sanbenito, a corruption of the words saco benito, or "holy hag."
An odd garment, cut rather like a poncho, the sanbenito fitted over the head and
hung to the knees. It was usually of yellow, the color of cowardice, and decorated
...
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To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New ...
sanbenito.?)4. Perez's petition offers a rare opportunity for the modern reader to
consider how the stigma of the penitential habit affected those reconciled
judaizantes who remained in New Spain. In a moving letter, Pérez appealed to
the ...
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The Infernal Return: The Recurrence of the Primordial in ...
... 1'avoir ecout<§ avec un air d'approbation: tous deux furent menes separement
dans des appartemens d'une extreme fraicheur, dans lesquels on n'etait jamais
incommode du soleil; huit jour apres ils furent tous deux revetus d'un sanbenito, ...
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The Spanish Inquisition
Penitenciado: A heretic condemned for lesser offences against the faith, formally '
reconciled' to the Church but obliged to renounce sins and subject to a fine, and
public humiliation via the wearing of the sanbenito. Potro: 'The rack' – one of the ...
The sanbenito was a defamatory penitential garment that clearly indicated that its
wearer had been convicted of heresy. Wearing the sanbenito for a certain period
whenever the penitent went out in public was one of the punishments meted ...
Olivia Remie Constable, 1997
