A companion to heresy inquisitions / / edited by Donald S. Prudlo.

• TeilnehmendeR: Prudlo, Donald S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 85.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 pages).

Inquisitions of heresy have long fascinated both specialists and non-specialists. A Companion to Heresy Inquisitions presents a synthesis of the immense amount of scholarship generated about these institutions in recent years. The volume offers an overview of many of the most significant areas of heresy inquisitions, both medieval and early modern. The essays in this collection are intended to introduce the reader to disagreements and advances in the field, as well as providing a navigational aid to the wide variety of recent discoveries and controversies in studies of heresy inquisitions. Contributors: Christine Ames, Feberico Barbierato, Elena Bonora, Lúcia Helena Costigan, Michael Frassetto, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Helen Rawlings, Lucy Sackville, Werner Thomas, and Robin Vose.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Donald S. Prudlo -- Origins of Inquisitions of Heretical Depravity -- The Spiritual Foundations of Christian Heresy Inquisitions / Christine Caldwell Ames -- Precursors to Religious Inquisitions: Anti-heretical Efforts to 1184 / Michael Frassetto -- Medieval Inquisitions -- The Fourth Lateran Ordo of Inquisition Adapted to the Prosecution of Heresy / Henry Ansgar Kelly -- The Church's Institutional Response to Heresy in the 13th Century / L. J. Sackville -- Heresy Inquisitions in the Later Middle Ages / Robin Vose -- The Iberian Inquisitions -- The Spanish Inquisition and the Converso Challenge (c. 1480-1525): A Question of Race, Religion or Socio-political Ascendancy? / Helen Rawlings -- The Metamorphosis of the Spanish Inquisition, 1520-1648 / Werner Thomas -- The Rise of the Modern Inquisition in Portugal and Brazil, and the Transformation of Jews and New Christians into Heretics / Lúcia Helena Costigan -- The Italian Inquisitions -- The Takeover of the Roman Inquisition / Elena Bonora -- Politics, Diplomacy and Religious Dissent. The Activity of the Inquisition in Early Modern Venice / Federico Barbierato -- Back Matter -- Select Bibliography -- Index.