Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700

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

List of contents

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Peter Biller and L. J. Sackville

Part I: Medieval
1. Inquisitorial identity and authority in thirteenth-century exegesis and sermons; Jean Halgrin d'Abbeville, Jacques de Vitry and Humbert of Romans
Jessalynn Lea Bird

2. Shaping the image of the heretics: The narratio in Gregory IX's letters
Alessandro Sala

3. Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accused
Jörg Feuchter

4. The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit: the 1332 enquiry into the 'Cowled Nuns' of Swidnica
Pawel Kras

5. Late medieval heresiography and the categorisation of Eastern Christianity
Irene Bueno

6. The portrayal of the Waldensian Brethren in the De vita et conversacione (c. 1391-3)
Appendix: De vita et conversacione: edition and translation of the
Weimar Ms
Reima Välimäki

7. Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts: the case of Petrus Zwicker's Cum dormirent homines
Adam Poznanski

8. Constructing narratives of witchcraft
Richard Kieckhefer

Part II: Early Modern
9. 'Ut ex vetustis membranis cognosco': Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manuals
Harald Bollbuck

10. The 'Cathars as Protestant' myth and the formation of heterodox identity in the French Wars of Religion
Luc Racaut

11. The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records in Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Doat Mss 21-26
Shelagh Sneddon

12. History in the Dominican Convent in Toulouse in 1666 and 1668: Antonin Réginald and Jean de Doat
Appendix: Antonin Réginald, Chronicon inquisitorum, edition and translation of excerpts, 1240-1340
Peter Biller

13. The Roman Inquisition: between reality and myth
Michaela Valente

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Product details

• Authors: Pete Biller, Peter Biller, Jessalynn Bird, Joerg Feuchter, L J Sackville, L.J. Sackville, Alessandro Sala
• Assisted by: Pete Biller (Editor), Peter Biller (Editor), Professor Peter Biller (Editor), Dr. L J Sackville (Editor), L J Sackville (Editor), L. J. Sackville (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781914049033
• ISBN: 978-1-914049-03-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 857 g
• Series: Heresy and Inquisition in the; Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous