Inquisition

Inquisition

by Peters, Edward

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This impressive volume is actually three histories in one: of the legal procedures, personnel, and institutions that shaped the inquisitorial tribunals from Rome to early modern Europe of the myth of The Inquisition, from its origins with the anti-Hispanists and religious reformers of the sixteenth century to its embodiment in literary and artistic masterpieces of the nineteenth century and of how the myth itself became the foundation for a "history" of the inquisitions.

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  • Full title :Inquisition / Edward Peters.

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This impressive volume is actually three histories in one: of the legal procedures, personnel, and institutions that shaped the inquisitorial tribunals from Rome to early modern Europe of the myth of The Inquisition, from its origins with the anti-Hispanists and religious reformers of the sixteenth century to its embodiment in literary and artistic masterpieces of the nineteenth century and of how the myth itself became the foundation for a "history" of the inquisitions.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:[1989], ©1988.

Publication Statements

The Physical Object

  • Description:vi, 362 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, map ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0520066308, 9780520066304
  • oclc:ocm18683092
  • LC Classification:BX1712
  • Dewey Decimal:272/.2

Table of Contents

The law of Rome and the Latin Christian Church -- Dissent, heterodoxy, and the medieval inquisitorial office -- The inquisitions in Iberia and the new world -- The Roman and Italian inquisitions -- The invention of the inquisition -- The inquisition, the toleration debates, and the enlightenment -- The inquisition in literature and art -- The power of art and the transformation of myth : four nineteenth-century studies -- From myth to history -- Materials for meditation -- Literary inquisition : a bibliographical essay.

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Subjects

Europe Inquisitie Inquisition Inquisition dans l'art Inquisition dans la littérature Inquisition in art Inquisition in literature

Writers

Peters, Edward

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