El hereje muere varias veces: tratamiento y actitudes hacia el cuerpo transgresor en el México colonial

Abstract

This research proposal focuses on the mortuary treatment of heretics and transgressors in colonial Mexico, that resulted in deviant burials. It explores how the fears held by members of the colonial society in Mexico against the body of the heretic, and ideas on the afterlife, found expression in peculiar funerary practices. Primary and secondary sources, and archaeological information, identified such treatment and possible deposition sites of those transgressors.