Protestants and Catholics saw deviation (heresy, sodomy, witchcraft) as a threat to the social and religious order.
Institutions like the Inquisition policed bodies—especially of women, Jews, Muslims, and other “outsiders.”- Marriage, convents, ghettos, and labour houses were all forms of enclosure and containment to maintain control.
Just as Terpstra describes containment of nuns or expulsion of Jews, Eleno’s case represents an attempt to reassert boundaries between man and woman, Christian and heretic, natural and unnatural