On November 11, SPO Lecturer Cloe Cavero de Carondelet and HIS Professor Yonatan Glazer-Eytan published their article "Infamy within Sight: Making and Unmaking Sambenitos in the Early Modern Iberian World” in the journal Renaissance Quarterly.
The article traces the origins, development, and decline of the artifact known as the sambenito, with a particular focus on its material and visual aspects. The sambenito was mostly known as the penitential garment imposed by the Inquisition on the individuals it condemned, but it was also exhibited in churches and monasteries as a monument of infamy. The authors argue that displayed sambenitos performed mnemonic and evidentiary roles in societies obsessed with genealogy, while also bringing to light the continuous resistance and opposition to the sambenito on the ground.