InquisitionThis impressive volume is actually three histories in one: of the legal procedures, personnel, and institutions that shaped the inquisitorial tribunals from Rome to early modern Europe; of the myth of The Inquisition, from its origins with the anti-Hispanists and religious reformers of the sixteenth century to its embodiment in literary and artistic masterpieces of the nineteenth century; and of how the myth itself became the foundation for a "history" of the inquisitions. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Law of Rome and the Latin Christian Church | 11 |
Dissent Heterodoxy and the Medieval Inquisitorial Office | 40 |
The Inquisitions in Iberia and the New World | 75 |
The Roman and Italian Inquisitions | 105 |
The Invention of The Inquisition | 122 |
The Inquisition the Toleration Debates and the Enlightenment | 155 |
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