Texts and the Repression of Medieval Heresy - Hardcover

 
9781903153109: Texts and the Repression of Medieval Heresy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1903153107 ISBN 13: 9781903153109
Publisher: York Medieval Press, 2002

Synopsis

Historiographical survey of inquisition texts, from lists of questions to inquisitor's manual, studies their role in the suppression of heresy. Did you see a heretic? When? Where? Who else was there?'. The inquisitor is questioning, and a suspect is replying; a notary is translating from the vernacular into Latin, and writing it down, abbreviating and omitting at will; later there is the reading out of a sentence in public and then, in a few cases, burning. At every stage there is a text: a list of questions, for example, or an inquisitor's how-to-do it manual. The substance and intention of these texts forms the subject of this book. The introduction brings them all together in an historiographical survey of the role of texts in the suppression of heresy, and the volume is crowned by the Quodlibet lecture, in which the doyen of all heresy historians, ALEXANDER PATSCHOVSKY, magisterially surveys the political nature of heresy accusations. Contributors: MARK PEGG, PETER BILLER, CATERINA BRUSCHI, JAMES GIVEN, JOHN ARNOLD, JESSALYN BIRD, ANNE HUDSON, ALEXANDER PATSCHOVSKY.

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About the Author

PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

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Publisher
York Medieval Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1903153107
ISBN 13 
9781903153109
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
276
Editor
Bruschi Caterina, Biller Professor Peter