Abstracts
Abstract
The Spanish Inquisition’s notorious public executions, celebrated in tandem with elaborate spectacles called autos-de-fe, foreground the contested theological weight of death and the senses at the apogee of the Spanish Reformation. Joining efforts to re-evaluate the sensory in early modernity, this article argues that contemporaneous accounts of autos-de-fe simultaneously perpetuate and challenge the notion that the Reformation constituted a fundamental change to theological interpretations of the senses. Published evangelical treatises by Reinaldo González de Montes and Juan Pérez de Pineda, alongside official manuscripts stored in the Inquisition’s archives, collectively elucidate the transformations of the senses in the aftermath of the Reformation in Spain. Moreover, Pérez’s corpus exemplifies Protestantism’s paradoxical interpretations of the deadly autos, viewing their sensorial abundance at once as profoundly significant and utterly meaningless.
Keywords:
- autos-de-fe,
- Inquisition,
- Lutheranism,
- Senses,
- Sacramentality,
- Reinaldo González de Montes,
- Juan Pérez de Pineda
Résumé
Les célèbres exécutions publiques de l’Inquisition espagnole, accompagnées de spectacles élaborés nommés autos-de-fe, mettent en évidence la portée théologique contestée de la mort et des sens à l’apogée de la Réforme espagnole. S’inscrivant dans la démarche de réévaluation du sensoriel au début de la modernité, le présent article soutient que les récits contemporains des autos-de-fe perpétuent et remettent simultanément en cause l’idée voulant que la Réforme ait conduit à un changement fondamental dans les interprétations théologiques des sens. Les traités évangéliques publiés par Reinaldo González de Montes et Juan Pérez de Pineda, ainsi que des manuscrits officiels conservés dans les archives de l’Inquisition, élucident collectivement les transformations des sens dans la foulée de la Réforme en Espagne. En outre, le corpus de Pérez apparaît comme un exemple frappant de la relation paradoxale qu’entretenait la théologie protestante avec les terribles autos-de-fe et leur profusion sensorielle, considérant ceux-ci à la fois comme profondément significatifs et dénués de sens.
Mots-clés :
- Autodafés,
- Inquisition,
- Luthéranisme,
- Sens,
- Sacramentalité,
- Reinaldo González de Montes,
- Juan Pérez de Pineda
Appendices
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