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Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance
Alexandra Parma Cook
Noble David Cook
其他書名
A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy
出版
Duke University Press
, 1991
主題
History / Latin America / General
History / Latin America / South America
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / Europe / Spain
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
ISBN
9780822312222
0822312220
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1rMuGrUc6NYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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
mentalité
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.