Renaissance inquisitors : Dominican inquisitors and inquisitorial districts in Northern Italy, 1474-1527 / by Michael Tavuzzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tavuzzi, Michael M.

Series:

Studies in the history of Christian traditions 1573-5664 ; v. 134.

Studies in the history of Christian traditions, 1573-5664 ; v. 134

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dominicans.

Inquisition--Italy, Northern.

Inquisition.

Dominicans--Italy, Northern.

Renaissance.

Church history.

Italy, Northern--Church history.

Italy, Northern.

Church history--15th century.

Church history--16th century.

Renaissance--Italy, Northern.

Northern Italy.

Physical Description:

xiii, 286 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

During the Renaissance there was no centralized Inquisition in northern Italy until Pope Paul III founded the Roman Inquisition in 1542, but there was a dense network of autonomous papal inquisitors. Based on extensive archival research, this study investigates the life of the Dominican friars from whom these inquisitors were mostly drawn. It focuses on a selection of hitherto almost unknown but representative inquisitors to cast new light on their formation, appointment and careers, as well as their principal pursuits - the prosecution of heretics, especially Waldensians and Judaizers, and, most of all, the hunting of witches, for it was at its most intense in northern Italy during the Renaissance, over a century before reaching its peak in Northern Europe.

Contents:

Inquisitors and inquisitorial districts

Conventuals and observants

Administrators, courtiers, and academics

Surveillants of minorities

Witch-hunters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-275) and index.

ISBN:

9004160949

9789004160941

OCLC:

146364715