Represión y uso socio-político de la sodomía en la Corona de Aragón en el siglo XVI

We want to analyze the sodomy prosecution, and its role as a political and social weapon in Modern Spain. After the promulgation of the VII Partidas of the King of Castile, Alfonso X, the nefarious sin takes a legal condition. The repression of sodomy in the 16th century has its materialization in the Pragmatic of Medina del Campo by the Catholic Kings (1497), in which is instituted the death by burning, and the alienation of the assets of the defendant. Subsequently, the pragmatics of Madrid of Felipe II (1592) continued with the approach of the corpus of Medina. The witnessing conditions are provided too. Felipe II and used the prosecution of sodomy as a weapon to accelerate the litigation against the enemies of the Catholic faith. With the declaration of sodomy as lese-majesty crime, the nefarious sin it was not only be a henious sin that offends God, but also an obstacle to the Crown in her political exercise. In Aragón, the Inquisition was responsible for execute and punish offenders. The profile of the accused is heterogeneous. In the Hispanic unequal society of 16th century, the law acted based on origin, social level, religion or ethnicity of the accused.