BOOK: Donald S. PRUDLO, A Companion to Heresy Inquisitions (Leiden: Brill, 2019). ISBN: 9789004360907, €198.00

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume: 85

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

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Donald S. Prudlo, Ph.D. (2004), University of Virginia, is Professor of Medieval History at Jacksonville State University. He has published works on inquisitions, saints and sainthood, and Church history, most recently Certain Sainthood (Cornell, 2016).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements 

Notes on Contributors 

 Introduction 

  Donald S. Prudlo 

Part 1- Origins of Inquisitions of Heretical Depravity

 1. The Spiritual Foundations of Christian Heresy Inquisitions 

  Christine Caldwell Ames 

 2. Precursors to Religious Inquisitions: Anti-Heretical efforts to 1184 

  Michael Frassetto 

Part 2 - Medieval Inquisitions

 3. The Fourth Lateran Ordo of Inquisition Adapted to the Prosecution of Heresy 

  Henry Ansgar Kelly 

 4. The Church’s Institutional Response to Heresy in the 13th Century 

  Lucy Sackville 

 5. Heresy Inquisitions in the Later Middle Ages 

  Robin Vose 

Part 3 - The Iberian Inquisitions

 6. The Spanish Inquisition and the Converso Challenge ( c.1480–1525): A Question of Race, Religion or Socio-Political Ascendancy? 

  Helen Rawlings 

 7. The Metamorphosis of the Spanish Inquisition, 1520–1648 

  Werner Thomas 

 8. The Rise of the Modern Inquisition in Portugal and Brazil, and the Transformation of Jews and New Christians into Heretics 

  Lúcia Helena Costigan 

Part 4 : The Italian Inquisitions

 9. The Takeover of the Roman Inquisition 

  Elena Bonora 

 10. Politics, Diplomacy and Religious Dissent. The Activity of the Inquisition in Early Modern Venice 

  Federico Barbierato 

 Bibliography 

 Index 

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