Cook Noble David Cook

Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance (eBook, PDF)

A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy

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Produktbeschreibung

Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike most other rich conquistadores who returned to the land of their birth, Francisco was not allowed to settle into a life of leisure. Instead, he was charged with bigamy and illegal shipment of silver, was arrested and imprisoned. Francisco's first wife (thought long dead) had filed suit in Spain against her renegade husband.So begins the labyrinthine legal tale and engrossing drama of an explorer and his two wives, skillfully reconstructed through the expert and original archival research of Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Drawing on the remarkable records from the trial, the narrative of Francisco's adventures provides a window into daily life in sixteenth-century Spain, as well as the mentalite and experience of conquest and settlement of the New World. Told from the point of view of the conquerors, Francisco's story reveals not only the lives of the middle class and minor nobility but also much about those at the lower rungs of the social order and relations between the sexes.In the tradition of Carlo Ginzberg's The Cheese and the Worms and Natalie Zemon Davis' The Return of Martin Guerre, Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance illuminates an historical period-the world of sixteenth-century Spain and Peru-through the wonderful and unusual story of one man and his two wives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 1991
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822396895
• Artikelnr.: 54679353

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Maps ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Prologue. Justice Be Fulfilled 1
The Indies
I. She Who Died 7
II. Hardship and Risk 9
III. Neither Rectitude nor Tranquility 14
IV. The Healthiest in Peru 18
V. This City is Traitorous 21
VI. This Is the Head 28
VII. Such Little Penitence 29
VIII. Kissed Her on the Cheek 32
IX. The Crown Jewel 36
X. They Would Kill Me 37
XI. Silver Common as Copper 41
XII. On the First Ship 43
XIII. I Promise You 44
XIV. Relieve My Conscience 50
XV. Used Force 53
XVI. Justice Will Not Be Lost 57
XVII. She Should Receive 62
XVIII. No Case Is So Expensive 64
XIX. In Truthful Ignorance 67
The Trial
XX. He Should Be Jailed 71
XXI. In Search of the Fugitive 73
XXII. I Have Presented Myself 76
XXIII. Are You Married? 77
XXIV. This Claim 80
XXV. Foul Odors and Vapors 83
XXVI. I Consent 84
XXVII. No Hope of Survival 88
XXVIII. Give Me the City 90
XXIX. A Wise Man 91
XXX. Shock and Great Sadness 97
XXXI. Never Forgive the Nuns 102
XXXII. He and She Knowing 104
XXXIII. Married Life Together 107
XXXIV. Compel and Force 108
XXXV. Leave the House 111
XXXVI. Contrary to the Truth 112
XXXVII. Shall Not Meet 115
XXXVIII. Carnal Intercourse 116
XXXIX. To Sin Mortally 119
Fateful Decisions
XL. The Principal Houses 123
XLI. I Am Despoiled 127
XLII. And Gave Freedom 133
XLIII. Perpetual Memory 133
XLIV. Carry the Name 136
XLV. Interred in My Chapel 138
XLVI. From the Estate 141
XLVII. He Had Consummated 142
XLVIII. Has Not Fulfilled 145
XLIX. As Good Brothers 146
Epilogue. Treasures Upon Earth 151
Glossary 155
Currency and Measures 160
Chronology 161
Notes 165
Bibliography 191
Index 199