Renaissance Inquisitors: Dominican Inquisitors and Inquisitorial Districts in Northern Italy, 1474-1527

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16094-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 134, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

During the Renaissance there was no centralized Inquisition in northern Italy until Pope Paul III founded the Roman Inquisition in 1542, but there was a dense network of autonomous papal inquisitors. Based on extensive archival research, this study investigates the life of the Dominican friars from whom these inquisitors were mostly drawn. It focuses on a selection of hitherto almost unknown but representative inquisitors to cast new light on their formation, appointment and careers, as well as their principal pursuits - the prosecution of heretics, especially Waldensians and Judaizers, and, most of all, the hunting of witches, for it was at its most intense in northern Italy during the Renaissance, over a century before reaching its peak in Northern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tavuzzi, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Inquisitors and Inquisitorial Districts
2. Conventuals and Observants
3. Administrators, Courtiers and Academics
4. Surveillants of Minorities
5. Witch-Hunters

Epilogue

Appendices
1. Biographical register of Dominican inquisitors in northern Italy, 1474-1527
2. Calendar of witch-trials conducted by Dominican inquisitors, 1450-1527

Bibliography
Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Tavuzzi, Ph.D. (1981), University of Fribourg, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, Rome, and a member of the Dominican Historical Institute. He has published widely on Renaissance religious and intellectual history including Prierias (Duke U.P., 1997).