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Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.
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AcknowledgementsIntroduction
Peter Biller and L. J. Sackville Part I: Medieval1. 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 Sala3. Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accused
Jörg Feuchter4. The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit: the 1332 enquiry into the 'Cowled Nuns' of Swidnica
Pawel Kras5. 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 Välimäki7. Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts: the case of Petrus Zwicker's
Cum dormirent homines Adam Poznanski8. Constructing narratives of witchcraft
Richard Kieckhefer Part II: Early Modern9. 'Ut ex vetustis membranis cognosco': Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manuals
Harald Bollbuck10. The 'Cathars as Protestant' myth and the formation of heterodox identity in the French Wars of Religion
Luc Racaut11. The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records in Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Doat Mss 21-26
Shelagh Sneddon12. 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 Biller13. The Roman Inquisition: between reality and myth
Michaela Valente
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Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.
