UID:
almahu_9949701249302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047420606
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2007
Content:
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.
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Preliminary material /
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Chapter One. Inquisitors and inquisitorial districts /
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Chapter Two. Conventuals and observants /
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Chapter Three. Administrators, courtiers and academics /
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Chapter Four. Surveillants of minorities /
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Chapter Five. Witch-hunters /
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Epilogue /
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Appendix 1. Biographical register of dominican inquisitors in northern Italy, 1474-1527 /
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Appendix 2. Calendar of known trials for witchcraft conducted by dominican inquisitors in northern Italy, 1450-1527 /
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Bibliography /
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Index of names /
Additional Edition:
Renaissance inquisitors ISBN 9789004160941 (alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004160949 (alk. paper)
Language:
English
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