Gênero, direito e transgressões religiosas: as feitiçarias e bruxarias nos tribunais monárquicos do reino de Castela nos séculos XV e XVI

Abstract

Sorcery and witchcraft were configured throughout the centuries under medieval as religious transgressions, being targets of more and more specific, central and recurring concerns by the Castilian courts. These practices went through a process of heresialization and their practitioners were increasingly associated with the demonic and the feminine. In this process of (re) configuration, the practices of sorcery and witchcraft went through a process of heresialization and its practitioners were increasingly associated with the demonic and the feminine. Women who had knowledge and practiced crafts related to the world of healing began to be controlled and persecuted in Castile, especially from the beginning of the 16th century. In this dissertation, we seek to go beyond the descriptions and statistical findings that there were more women than men being accused of practicing witchcraft and / or witchcraft. Privileging the analysis of executory letters, we start from a main problem that is to know if, how and why the gender guidelines interfered in the construction of the regulation of witchcraft and witchcraft practices in the regions north of the Kingdom of Castile under the domain of the Royal Chancellery of Valladolid in the 15th and 16th centuries, seeking to identify the (dis) connections between power and gender relations in the dynamics of medieval Castilian law.