Inquisition and knowledge, 1200-1700 / edited by Peter Biller and L. J. Sackville.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biller, Peter, editor.

Sackville, L. J. (Lucy J.), editor.

Series:

Heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages ; 10.

Heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inquisition--History.

Inquisition.

Heresy--History.

Heresy.

Knowledge, Sociology of--History.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

York : York Medieval Press, 2022.

Summary:

Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.

Contents:

Front Cover

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Overture

York

The theme

The chapters

Post-medieval: the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Coda

PART I: Medieval

1 - Inquisitorial identity and authority in thirteenth-century exegesis and sermons

Sources and discourses: sermons on ideal preachers and good and bad shepherds

Discernment of shepherds, sheep, dogs, and wolves

Detection and rehabilitation: the image of the heretic as leper

Masters and mendicants: sermons and inquests against heresy

2 - Shaping the image of the heretics: The narratio in Gregory IX's letters

3 - Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accused

1. Nepos and his part in the Liber fugitivus: redactor, not author

2. Biographical information in Nepos's redaction of the Liber fugitivus

3. Nepos as judge of the Toulousan Albigeois

4. Nepos of Montauban and his home town

5. Nepos as donatus of the abbey of St Théodard

6. Nepos as inquisitor's assistant and scribe in the 1240s

7. A sketch of Nepos's life

8. Discussion of heretics and heresy in Nepos's version of the Liber fugitivus

4 - The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit

The 1332 inquisitorial records and past research

The 'cowled nuns' of Świdnica

John of Schwenkenfeld and his 1332 investigation

Conclusion

5 - Late medieval heresiography and the categorisation of Eastern Christianity

Anti-heresy writing and the reception of Greeks and Armenians

Conclusions

6 - The portrayal of the Waldensian Brethren in the De vita et conversacione

Manuscripts and versions

The slippery slope from holy men to heresiarchs

Appendix

7 - Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts

8 - Constructing narratives of witchcraft.

PART II: Early Modern

9 - Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manuals

1. The formation of a Lutheran concept of history

2. Matthias Flacius and his concept of truth witnesses

3. Networking: the collection of inquisition manuals and registers

4. Inquisition records and manuals in the library of Flacius: an overview

5. Techniques and aims of the use of inquisition protocols and manuals by Flacius

10 - The 'Cathars as Protestant' myth and the formation of heterodox identity

11 - The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records

12 - History in the Dominican Convent in Toulouse in 1666 and 1668

i. The medieval archive

ii. Mid-seventeenth century: the convent

iii. 1666: Antonin Réginald's Chronicon Inquisitorum

iv. 1668: Jean de Doat's visit

13 - The Roman Inquisition: between reality and myth

Index

Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages.

ISBN:

1-80010-388-3

1-80010-387-5

OCLC:

1288216597