Inquisition and Medieval Society : : Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc / / James B. Given.

James B. Given analyzes the inquisition in one French region in order to develop a sociology of medieval politics. Established in the early thirteenth century to combat widespread popular heresy, inquisitorial tribunals identified, prosecuted, and punished heretics and their supporters. The inquisit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 1 map, 6 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • A NOTE ON CITATIONS FROM UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • SECTION I THE INQUISITORS AND THEIR TECHNIQUES
  • CHAPTER 1. THE TECHNOLOGY OF DOCUMENTATION
  • CHAPTER 2. THE TECHNOLOGY OF COERCIVE IMPRISONMENT
  • CHAPTER 3. THE TECHNOLOGY OF PUNISHMENT
  • SECTION II RESPONSES TO THE INQUISITORS
  • CHAPTER 4. FORMS OF INDIVIDUAL RESISTANCE
  • CHAPTER 5. FORMS OF COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE
  • CHAPTER 6. MANIPULATION
  • SECTION III THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT
  • CHAPTER 7. THE ROLE OF SOCIAL STRESS AND SOCIAL STRAIN
  • CHAPTER 8. STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS
  • CONCLUSION. THE INQUISITORS AND THE EXERCISE OF POLITICAL POWER IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • James Buchanan