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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Huntington Library Quarterly.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 78 (2015) through current issueLatest Articles: Huntington Library QuarterlyTWOProject MUSE®Huntington Library Quarterly1544-399X0018-7895Latest articles in Huntington Library Quarterly. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Escaping Rumor in the Mexican Inquisition
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983128
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In 1642, the Mexican Inquisition arrested Simon Lopez de Aguarda on suspicion of Judaizing. As a Portuguese natural who had immigrated to Mexico City about twenty-two years earlier, his arrest was not unusual. From 1640 to 1649, a group of 122 prisoners was the center of attention across major cities in colonial New Spain. They and their families had left Portugal to settle in New Spain's thriving mining towns and coastal cities, working mostly as merchants and miners. These Portuguese prisoners shared a converso ancestry, meaning that they were descendants of Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism in 1391 or 1492 in Spain, or in 1496 in Portugal.1 In 1630, heightened inquisitorial activity in Portugal drove the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/677/image/coversmallEscaping Rumor in the Mexican Inquisition2026-02-19text/htmlen-USEscaping Rumor in the Mexican Inquisition2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®1485612026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Sun Worship in the Early Modern English Colonial Imagination
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983127
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Across much of the modern world, traditional religions that revere nature have often been marginalized or treated with suspicion. Many Indigenous faiths and their modes of ritual practice continue to be misunderstood and persecuted. In certain parts of Africa today, those observing traditional religions still face routine accusations of witchcraft and sorcery. Nigerian-born religious studies scholar Jacob K. Olupona connects the prevailing mood of intolerance toward African traditional faiths with the rise in radical sects of Christianity and Islam across the continent. Olupona explains that, in the past, "not all challenges to polytheism have been religious. During colonial rule of Africa, practitioners of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/677/image/coversmallSun Worship in the Early Modern English Colonial Imagination2026-02-19text/htmlen-USSun Worship in the Early Modern English Colonial Imagination2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®997792026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19"The Mysteries of Apalache": Tall Tales and Lost Worlds in the Early American South
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983126
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In the mid-seventeenth century a new American story crossed the ocean. It concerned a mysterious kingdom called Apalache, located some days' travel from the Atlantic coast. A French Protestant minister in Rotterdam named Charles de Rochefort described the realm in his 1658 tome Histoire naturelle et morale des îles Antilles de l'Amérique [Natural and Moral History of the Antilles of America], supposedly drawing on eyewitness reports from Europeans who had lived among the Apalachites for decades as part of a refugee community. When Rochefort released a second edition of his book in 1665, he expanded the section on the Apalachites' history and culture and even included a letter from the supposed leader of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/677/image/coversmall"The Mysteries of Apalache": Tall Tales and Lost Worlds in the Early American South2026-02-19text/htmlen-US"The Mysteries of Apalache": Tall Tales and Lost Worlds in the Early American South2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®2391602026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19New Directions for the HLQ
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983125
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This issue marks a new direction for the Huntington Library Quarterly, which has been the flagship publication of The Huntington for almost ninety years. Like all successful journals, the HLQ has evolved with the changing dynamics of humanities scholarship by periodically reassessing its focus and priorities. Launched in 1937 as a catch-all venue for publishing research from the library's collections, the HLQ was repositioned in 1946 as a more standard academic journal dedicated to "the History and Interpretation of English and American Civilization." By the 1980s, decades of scholarship had exposed the intellectual and ethical shortcomings of "civilization" as a framework for humanistic inquiry, so editors changed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/677/image/coversmallNew Directions for the HLQ2026-02-19text/htmlen-USNew Directions for the HLQ2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®111102026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Rhetorical Rebound: Disabling Critique in Richard III
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983129
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In Shakespeare's Richard III (c. 1592), the dialogue drips with acidic disdain; nearly everyone wants to scorch the brutality of the king. They frequently do so by way of his deformities. Time and again, however, Richard neutralizes their rebukes, rebounding the discourse of premodern disability toward those who first levied it against him. These foes are often influential women. After the lady Anne condemns his "unnatural aspect," for instance, Richard derides her own unnatural features (1.2.137).1 He reassigns Margaret's list of his monstrous attributes to the careworn former queen and dubs his sister-in-law Elizabeth a witch. More than mere play, his rhetorical redirections reflect how fragile the norms of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/677/image/coversmallRhetorical Rebound: Disabling Critique in Richard III2026-02-19text/htmlen-USRhetorical Rebound: Disabling Critique in Richard III2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®1870202026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19A "Disposition to Laziness": Visions of Cockaigne in the English Atlantic World
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983130
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In 1663, the new proprietary colony of Carolina incorporated a number of settlements around Albemarle Sound, an estuary on North America's Atlantic coast. English inhabitants of the area—mostly fugitive indentured servants and a number of Quakers fleeing neighboring Virginia—were largely self-subsistent, growing their own corn and enjoying Albemarle's abundant game and fish. Settlers also fiercely resisted paying quitrents and customs duties to new proprietary officials. Their defiance eventually paid off: In 1691 the Lords Proprietor awarded the people their own assembly and deputy governor, establishing the colony of North Carolina.1The new colony's border with Virginia remained a source of contention, however
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/677/image/coversmallA "Disposition to Laziness": Visions of Cockaigne in the English Atlantic World2026-02-19text/htmlen-USA "Disposition to Laziness": Visions of Cockaigne in the English Atlantic World2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®2213002026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19How Menocchio's Ordeal Began: Clerical Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church in the Sixteenth and Twenty-First Centuries
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983131
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"If Menocchio had given me his daughter, he would not be where he is now, a prisoner of the Inquisition.""I wanted to kill priests, burn villages, and go to desperate ends, but because of the little children I have, I held myself back."Revelations of sexual abuse by priests have rocked the Roman Catholic Church in recent decades. A worldwide reckoning with the trauma and ensuing institutional collapse created by priest-perpetrators and those who protected them has advanced in fits and starts, gaining momentum since the Boston sexual abuse cases came to light in 2002. Those accused—with overwhelming evidence—include a cardinal-archbishop, the most senior and powerful Church leader in the United States, and a hero of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/677/image/coversmallHow Menocchio's Ordeal Began: Clerical Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church in the Sixteenth and Twenty-First Centuries2026-02-19text/htmlen-USHow Menocchio's Ordeal Began: Clerical Sex Abuse and the Catholic Church in the Sixteenth and Twenty-First Centuries2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®1225282026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19Black Aquatics: Early Modern Past, Present, and Future
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983132
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We study the long dead. Scholars of the early modern period, with centuries standing between us and our topics of intellectual inquiry, might imagine that our work can have no direct, meaningful impact on the world around us. As a community impact project that draws on early modern manuscripts, images, and rare books to address the current disproportionately high Black drowning death rates in the United States and England, Open Water: Histories of Afroaquatics challenges scholars to reconsider how they can employ their scholarship for meaningful impact on contemporary racial inequities, including to rectify historical wrongs.This article traces both the research and the connected advocacy work undertaken by a team
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/677/image/coversmallBlack Aquatics: Early Modern Past, Present, and Future2026-02-19text/htmlen-USBlack Aquatics: Early Modern Past, Present, and Future2026-02-192026TWOProject MUSE®2155622026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-02-19