1. From what I have seen over time, goanet cannot replace class room, neither long years of research and study. It can serve to call attention to some issues and little more. The themes of Inquisition and SFX require vast reading and thorough familiarity with a vast bibliography and documentation Those who think that placing documents on-line (how many?) would solve the controversies are wrong. Historians know better that documents do not speak for themselves. They need to be interpreted in the context in which they were produced, and that requires lots of more knowledge than what few documents may provide.
2. It is also important that those who want to discuss seriously a theme, keep abreast of new research findings and publications. How many of those talking on the Goanet have read the recent publications, say for instance, of Ines Zupanev or Ana Cannas da Cunha? This last named author has recently published new documentation to prove that Inquisition was already at work in Portuguese India much before 1560. Hence, it did not wait for the *official* establishment of it to start its work. There were already cases running against the cripto-Jews who had been running away from Portuguese Inquisition in Portugal and seeking refuge in *distant* India from 1536 onwards on a big scale. Hence, the concern of SFX and several other important Jesuits of the time, such as Gaspar Barzeo, Baltazar Dias, Antonio Quadrso, Belchior Nunes Barreto, Gongalo Silveira, etc. 3. As to the point made below that SFX was busy moving about and that after the first three years was at places far away from India, we should not forget that he remained Jesuit superior responsible for everything in the East. Even just before he left on his last voyage to China he left detailed instructions to Fr. Gaspar Barzeo on how he should run the show during his absence from India. These instructions make a very interesting reading, including what SFX thought of women. Teotonio R. de Souza ------------------- Gilbert Lawrence wrote: Not many Goans / Indians know that the inquisition was brought from Europe to Goa nine years after SFX died. And about seven years before SFX died, he left Goa for the far east- Spice Islands, Japan and then making plans to go to China. So SFX was only actively involved in India for the (first) three short years. This time was spent along the whole coast from Bassein (north of Mumbai / Bombay) to the southern tip of Kerala and then going to Madras/ Chennai. ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ########################################################################## ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from Goa-Research-Net ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Send us a brief self-intro to justify your interest in this "specialized" forum. This should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED]) * Leave SUBJECT blank * On first line of the BODY of your message, type: subscribe goa-research-net [EMAIL PROTECTED] or unsubscribe goa-research-net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------
