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Inquisition trials for sorcery and witchcraft in Portugal reached a late crescindo (1715 to 1755). This study of those events focuses on the Inquisition's role in prosecuting and discrediting popular healers (called saludadores or curandeiros), who were charged with practicing magical crimes. Significantly, these trials coincide with the entrance of university-trained physicians and surgeons into the paid ranks of the Portuguese Inquisition in unprecedented numbers. State-licensed medical practitioners, motivated by professional competition combined with a desire to promote rationalized "scientific" medicine, used their positions within the Holy Office to initiate trials against purveyors of superstitious folk remedies. The repression of folk healing reveals a conflict between learned medical culture and popular healing culture in Enlightenment-era Portugal. In this rare instance, the Inquisition functioned as an instrument of progressive social change.
Enlightenment --- Inquisition --- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric --- Witchcraft --- History --- History of Southern Europe --- Esoteric sciences --- anno 1700-1799 --- Portugal --- Magic --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Magic medicine --- Medicine, Mystic --- Medicine, Occult --- Medicine, Spagiric --- Mystic medicine --- Occult medicine --- Spagiric medicine --- Spagyric medicine --- Alchemy --- Alternative medicine --- Superstition --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- history.
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With innovative scholarship and thorough research, 'Sailing to Freedom' highlights little-known stories and describes the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African Americans' paid and unpaid waterfront labour.
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