General Inquisitors and the Portuguese Crown in the Seventeenth Century: Between Political Service and the Defense of the Faith (1578–1705)

Ana Isabel López-Salazar received her PhD from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). She is a researcher at the CIDEHUS (Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades) at the University of Évora (Portugal). Her research concerns the relationships among the Portuguese Inquisition, the New Christians, the Crown and the Holy See in the seventeenth century. She is also interested in the relationship between the Portuguese and the Spanish Inquisitions. Her main publications are Inquisición portuguesa y Monarquía Hispánica en tiempos del perdón general de 1605 (Lisbon, 2010) and Inquisición y política. El gobierno del Santo Oficio en el Portugal de los Austrias. 1578–1653 (Lisbon, 2011).