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Feeling Upside Down: Witchcraft and Exclusion in the Twilight of Early Modern Spain

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Feeling Upside Down: Witchcraft and Exclusion in the Twilight of Early Modern Spain

dc.contributor.author	Tausiet, María
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-16T06:39:11Z
dc.date.available	2020-11-01T05:45:05Z
dc.date.issued	2019	es_ES
dc.identifier.citation	María Tausiet, "Feeling Upside Down: Witchcraft and Exclusion in the Twilight of Early Modern Spain", in Giovanni Tarantino & Charles Zika (eds.), "Feeling Exclusion. Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe". Routledge, 2019.	es_ES
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10550/71733
dc.description	This book chapter has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 787015)	es_ES
dc.description.abstract	In mid-1812, in the village of Tosos (Zaragoza), more than thirty-two of the inhabitants claimed to be possessed. Most of the population accepted the supernatural explanation of maleficence and cast the blame on one woman, Joaquina Martínez, who was labelled a witch and sorceress and whose life was threatened on several occasions thereafter, until she was definitively expelled from the village. Had this happened in the 16th or 17th century, Joaquina would have been tried and awarded a harsh sentence.Two centuries on from the end of the “witch-hunt”, however, as if in a “looking-glass world”, those brought to trial were her persecutors.The episcopal trial of the so-called “possessed of Tosos” provides some fascinating insights when it comes to the study of emotions in a crucial period of historical change: the Spanish War of Independence, which marked the beginning of the end of Spain’s Ancien Régime. What becomes very clear from this particular case is the parallel existence of two emotional codes. According to the code upheld by most of the villagers (the language of demonic possession), the emotional disturbances were caused by demons invoked by Joaquina. On the other hand, according to the code upheld by the representatives of the Church (the language of reason and the Enlightenment), most of the afflicted were either faking their possession or, in some cases, they were ill or insane. In this new, enlightened age, however, witchcraft was no longer something to be unquestioningly accepted.	es_ES
dc.language.iso	es	es_ES
dc.subject	exclusion	es_ES
dc.subject	emotions	es_ES
dc.subject	enlightenment	es_ES
dc.subject	history of women	es_ES
dc.subject	witchcraft	es_ES
dc.title	Feeling Upside Down: Witchcraft and Exclusion in the Twilight of Early Modern Spain	es_ES
dc.type	book part	es_ES
dc.subject.unesco	UNESCO::HISTORIA::Historia por épocas::Historia moderna	es_ES
dc.identifier.doi	10.4324/9780429354335	es_ES
dc.embargo.terms	1 year
dc.relation.projectID	Horizon 2020/ERC-2017-Advanced Grant-787015	en