This text provides a study on ecclesiastical censorship entirely based on documents from the Holy Office Archives that up to 1998 were inaccessible to the great majority of the scholars. The book gives a general overview of ecclesiastical political strategies toward a crucial fi…
"Treacherous Faith offers a new and ambitious cross-disciplinary account of the ways writers from the early English Reformation to the Restoration generated, sustained, or questioned cultural anxieties about heresy and heretics. This book examines the dark, often brutal story of…
"The main subjects of enquiry in this volume centre around the major areas in which the honoree, Gordon Leff, has made fundamental contributions. These include learned and popular heresy (Cathars, Wyclif, Lollardy, and the concept of heresy itself); the history of medieval unive…
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Describes accusations against witches, Jews, and Conversos in Rome (then part of the Papal States) at the end of the 15th and during the 16th century. In regard to Jews or Conversos, relates that in 1498 the Converso Pedro de Aranda, former Bishop of Calahorra, Spain, was arrest…
"In Mandarins and Heretics, Wu Junqing explores the denunciation and persecution of lay religious groups in late imperial (14th to 20th century) China. These groups varied greatly in their organisation and teaching, yet in official state records they are routinely portrayed as b…
"In Mandarins and Heretics, Wu Junqing explores the denunciation and persecution of lay religious groups in late imperial (14th to 20th century) China. These groups varied greatly in their organisation and teaching, yet in official state records they are routinely portrayed as b…
"In Mandarins and Heretics, Wu Junqing explores the denunciation and persecution of lay religious groups in late imperial (14th to 20th century) China. These groups varied greatly in their organisation and teaching, yet in official state records they are routinely portrayed as b…
"In Mandarins and Heretics, Wu Junqing explores the denunciation and persecution of lay religious groups in late imperial (14th to 20th century) China. These groups varied greatly in their organisation and teaching, yet in official state records they are routinely portrayed as b…
"This book presents the first systematic and cross-cultural exploration of ideas of heresy, as well as orthodoxy, in a group of major religious traditions, including Neo-Confucianism, Sunni Islam, rabbinic Judaism, and early Christianity. It shows how authorities in all four of …