The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England

Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England.

List of contents

Introduction: Imagining Inquisition - Mary C. Flannery and Katie Louise Walter
Inquisition, Public Fame, and Confession: General Rules and English Practice - Henry Ansgar Kelly
The Imperatives of Denunciatio: Disclosing Other's Sins to Disciplinary Authorities - Edwin Craun
English Provincial Constitutions and Inquisition into Lollardy - Ian Forrest
The Contest over the Public Imagination of Inquisition, 1380-1430 - Diane Vincent
'Vttirli Onknowe'? Modes of Inquiry and the Dynamics of Interiority in Vernacular Literature - Mary C. Flannery
'Vttirli Onknowe'? Modes of Inquiry and the Dynamics of Interiority in Vernacular Literature - Katie Louise Walter
From Defacement to Restoration: Inquisition, Confession and Thomas Usk's Appeal and Testament of Love - Jenny Lee
Confession, Inquisition and Exemplarity in The Erle of Toulous and Other Middle English Romances - James Wade
Heresy Inquisition and Authorship, 1400-1560 - Genelle Gertz
Imitating Inquisition: Dialectical Bias in Protestant Prison Writings - Ruth Ahnert
Response Essay: Chaucer's Inquisition - Emily Steiner

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Mary C. Flannery, Katie L. Walter

Summary

Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England.

Product details

• Authors: Edwin Craun, Mary C. Flannery, Emily Steiner, Diane Vincent, Katie L. Walter
• Assisted by: Mary C Flannery (Editor), Mary C. Flannery (Editor), Mary C. (Customer) Flannery (Editor), Katie L Walter (Editor), Katie L. Walter (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2013
• EAN: 9781843843368
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-336-8
• No. of pages: 202
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Westfield Medieval Studies; Westfield Medieval Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies