Ana Paula Lloyd | King's College London (original) (raw)
My PhD research focused on the unprecedented 1674 suspension of the Inquisition in Portugal. The topic casts a new light on cross-cultural political networks across Portugal, Rome and England in the late seventeenth century, exploring New Christian agency - examining the ways groups outside formal power structures were able to negotiate and subvert powerful institutions in the early modern period. I am now preparing a new project on the agency of New Christian Women in the seventeenth century. I am interested in transnational groups and political exchanges, decision-making across formal and informal networks and the mechanisms of inclusion, exclusion and co-existence in early modern Europe.
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Journal of Early Modern History, Mar 7, 2022
Using trials and wills of women arrested in the Portuguese inquisitorial purges of New Christian ... more Using trials and wills of women arrested in the Portuguese inquisitorial purges of New Christian families between 1672 and 1674, which gave rise to negotiations for a General Pardon and unprecedented suspension of the Inquisition, this article argues that there was a concerted strategy of female education amongst New Christian families, teaching literacy and business savvy to girls. This was not as a tool of empowerment or self-determination against a paternalistic society, but a necessity for the family to function under the scrutiny of neighbors and threat of inquisitorial persecution. Literacy was both a political strategy, a tool that could be used to undermine and evade the inquisition’s codes of secrecy, and a way to ensure the family and its vitally important business networks survived in the diaspora. Exploring the idea that reading and writing can be political acts, I will examine here what literacy meant for the practicality of lives lived in the shadow of the inquisition and diaspora.
Conference Presentations by Ana Paula Lloyd
Marginalidad ibérica en la Ciudad Eterna. Judeoconversos y moriscos en Roma, siglos XVI-XVII. Escuela Espanola de Historia y Arqueologia en Roma, Italy , 2019
Purity of Blood; The Iberian World in Comparative Persepctive. Symposium, Kings College London, 2019
Journal of Early Modern History, Mar 7, 2022
Using trials and wills of women arrested in the Portuguese inquisitorial purges of New Christian ... more Using trials and wills of women arrested in the Portuguese inquisitorial purges of New Christian families between 1672 and 1674, which gave rise to negotiations for a General Pardon and unprecedented suspension of the Inquisition, this article argues that there was a concerted strategy of female education amongst New Christian families, teaching literacy and business savvy to girls. This was not as a tool of empowerment or self-determination against a paternalistic society, but a necessity for the family to function under the scrutiny of neighbors and threat of inquisitorial persecution. Literacy was both a political strategy, a tool that could be used to undermine and evade the inquisition’s codes of secrecy, and a way to ensure the family and its vitally important business networks survived in the diaspora. Exploring the idea that reading and writing can be political acts, I will examine here what literacy meant for the practicality of lives lived in the shadow of the inquisition and diaspora.
Marginalidad ibérica en la Ciudad Eterna. Judeoconversos y moriscos en Roma, siglos XVI-XVII. Escuela Espanola de Historia y Arqueologia en Roma, Italy , 2019
Purity of Blood; The Iberian World in Comparative Persepctive. Symposium, Kings College London, 2019