Texts and the Repression of Medieval Heresy Hardback
Edited by Caterina Bruschi, Professor Peter Biller
Part of the York Studies in Medieval Theology series
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Historiographical survey of inquisition texts, from lists of questions to inquisitor's manual, studies their role in the suppression of heresy. Did you see a heretic? When? Where? Who else was there?'. The inquisitor is questioning, and a suspect is replying; a notary is translating from the vernacular into Latin, and writing it down, abbreviating and omitting at will; later there is the reading out of a sentence in public and then, in a few cases, burning.
At every stage there is a text: a list of questions, for example, or an inquisitor's how-to-do it manual.
The substance and intention of these texts forms the subject of this book.
The introduction brings them all together in an historiographical survey of the role of texts in the suppression of heresy, and the volume is crowned by the Quodlibet lecture, in which the doyen of all heresy historians, ALEXANDER PATSCHOVSKY, magisterially surveys the political nature of heresy accusations. Contributors: MARK PEGG, PETER BILLER, CATERINA BRUSCHI, JAMES GIVEN, JOHN ARNOLD, JESSALYN BIRD, ANNE HUDSON, ALEXANDER PATSCHOVSKY.
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- Pages:276 pages, 1 b/w illus.
- Publisher:York Medieval Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2002
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:276 pages, 1 b/w illus.
- Publisher:York Medieval Press
- Publication Date:05/12/2002
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- ISBN:9781903153109
