{"product_id":"the-women-who-threw-corn-witchcraft-and-inquisition-in-sixteenth-century-mexico-hardback-9781009550529","title":"The Women Who Threw Corn; Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (Hardback) 9781009550529","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Women Who Threw Corn\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWitchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn exploration of women from Spain, North Africa, and Canaries who adapted native magic and healing practices in sixteenth-century Mexico.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin Austin Nesvig (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009550529, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Nesvig's scholarship is, simply, meticulous. His careful and always transparent reading of the case files is a pleasure to read, offering a veritable clinic in the use of Inquisition records. The writing is wry, occasionally ribald, and lively … Encyclopedic, ambitious, engaging, and characteristically erudite, The Women Who Threw Corn will long reward specialist and student readership. It offers much to cross-disciplinary conversations among scholars of magic in other regions and periods and leaves this reader eager for the volumes to follow.' Jacqueline Holler, The American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native women – the mulata of Seville who cured the evil eye; the Canarian daughter of a Count who ate peyote and mixed her bath water into a man's mustard supply; the wife of a Spanish conquistador who let her hair loose and chanted to a Mesoamerican god while sweeping at midnight; the wealthy Basque woman with a tattoo of a red devil; and many others – routinely adapted Native ritual into hybrid magic and cosmology. Through a radical rethinking of colonial knowledge, Martin Austin Nesvig uncovers a world previously left in the shadows of historical writing, revealing a fascinating and vibrant multi-ethnic community of witches, midwives, and healers.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Witches and Their Enemies in the Early Modern World: 1. Demonological and anti-sorcery theories in Spain\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mesoamerican magic-medicine\u003cbr\u003e 3. Inquisitions, sorcery investigations, and the law in Mexico, 1521–1571\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Magic in the 1520s and 1530s: 4. Nahua women teach Iberian women how to cast spells\u003cbr\u003e 5. A multi-ethnic world of magic\u003cbr\u003e 6. African witches in Mexico City\u003cbr\u003e 7. Bad girls club: Moriscas, North Africans, and Canarians in Mexico\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Cultural Hybrid Healer-Witch: 8. The evil eye and a mysterious tattoo\u003cbr\u003e 9. Healing and magic in Oaxaca and Michoacán, 1561–1562\u003cbr\u003e 10. Mulatas incorporate Peyote and Patle\u003cbr\u003e 11. Catalina de Peraza, Canarian bad girl personified\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52472079647000,"sku":"9781009550529","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009550529i.jpg?v=1785716440","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-women-who-threw-corn-witchcraft-and-inquisition-in-sixteenth-century-mexico-hardback-9781009550529","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}