Inquisition / Edward Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Edward, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inquisition.

Inquisition in art.

Inquisition in literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989.

Summary:

This 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:

1. The Law of Rome and the Latin Christian Church 11

2. Dissent, Heterodoxy, and the Medieval Inquisitorial Office 40

3. The Inquisitions in Iberia and the New World 75

4. The Roman and Italian Inquisitions 105

5. The Invention of The Inquisition 122

6. The Inquisition, the Toleration Debates, and the Enlightenment 155

7. The Inquisition in Literature and Art 189

8. The Power of Art and the Transformation of Myth: Four Nineteenth-Century Studies 231

9. From Myth to History 263

10. Materials for a Meditation 296

Literary Inquisition: A Bibliographical Essay 316.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 316-347.

Local Notes:

Acc.# 204728

ISBN:

0520066308

OCLC:

18683092