Between the Consolidation of the Confessional Project and the Hierarchical Gender Structures: The Condemned Sodomites in Jesuit Pedro de León’s Compendium (Andalusia, 1578-1616)
The article will analyze, from a gender perspective, the criminal construction of the sodomy during the period of consolidation of the confessional project of the Hispanic Monarchy, during the late 16th century and early 17th century. We propose there was a relationship between the need to disciplin...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/10658 http://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=moderna&d=10658_oai |
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| Sumario: | The article will analyze, from a gender perspective, the criminal construction of the sodomy during the period of consolidation of the confessional project of the Hispanic Monarchy, during the late 16th century and early 17th century. We propose there was a relationship between the need to discipline the sodomite body and the consolidation of the confessional project in the Iberian Peninsula. The secular violence applied to the sodomite body constituted, from this perspective, one of the aspects of the establishment of confessional monarchies, since the requirement of political and religious uniformity demanded homogeneity in the sexual and gender behavior of their subjects. As a hypothesis, we suggest that as the confessional royal power was instituted, it needed to build gender structures in accordance with the political and religious project it sought to consolidate. In consequence, the sodomite body became an object of punishment. The nefarious sin, therefore, had to be eradicated, since it not only undermined the natural order, but also the gender hierarchy that sustained the power structures. Our arguments will be considered analyzing the cases of those condemned to death for sodomy who were accompanied at the royal prison of Seville by the Jesuit priest Pedro de León between 1578 and 1616. |
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