El éxito del sistema represivo inquisitorial: la autodelación. El caso de Pedro Antonio Santandreu

Abstract

The greatest success of any repressive system is the moment when the subject has interiorized in such a way the imposed values by it, what constitutes a crime or sin, that he turns himself in, prey of his own conscience. In the case of the Inquisition, we found the autodelaciones, voluntary reports of sinners that starts the proceso de fe. To deepen and expand this idea, we will take the process of Pedro Antonio Santandreu, a sailor from Mallorca proccessed by the Valencian court in 1761.