"Teresa Aguilera y Roche, wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo L漃pez de Mendiz榥bal, was the only woman from New Mexico ever tried by the Inquisition for the crime of secretly practicing Jewish rituals. Do鄚a Teresa's arrest, trial, and eventual exoneration shed light on the social fabric of seventeenth-century Santa Fe as well as the dangers of non-conformity on even the farthest frontiers of Spanish America. Accusing the governor and his wife of crypto-Judaism, Levine argues, had more to do with rivalpoliticians and clergy that used the Inquisition to silence opposition than actual heretical behavior"--Propvided by publisher.