The Business Of The Roman Inquisition In The Early Modern Era

Author : Germano Maifreda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317034627
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era written by Germano Maifreda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1542, the Roman Inquisition operated through a network of almost fifty tribunals to combat heretical and heterodox threats within the papal territories. Whilst its theological, institutional and political aspects have been well-studied, until now no sustained work has been undertaken to understand the financial basis upon which it operated. Yet – as The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era shows – the fiscal autonomy enjoyed by each tribunal was a major factor in determining how the Inquisition operated. For, as the flow of cash from Rome declined, each tribunal was forced to rely upon its own assets and resources to fund its work, resulting in a situation whereby tribunals increasingly came to resemble businesses. As each tribunal was permitted to keep a substantial proportion of the fines and confiscations it levied, questions quickly arose regarding the economic considerations that may have motivated the Inquisition’s actions. Dr Maifreda argues that the Inquisition, with the need to generate sufficient revenue to continue working, had a clear incentive to target wealthy groups within society who could afford to yield up substantial revenues. Furthermore, as secular authorities also began to rely upon a levy on these revenues, the financial considerations of decisions regarding heresy prosecutions become even greater. Based upon a wealth of hitherto neglected primary sources from the Vatican and local Italian archives, Dr Maifreda reveals the underlying financial structures that played a vital part in the operations of the Roman Inquisition. By exploring the system of incentives and pressures that guided the actions of inquisitors in their procedural processes and choice of victims, a much clearer understanding of the Roman Inquisition emerges. This book is an English translation of I denari dell’inquisitore. Affari e giustizia di fede nell’Italia moderna (Turin: Einaudi, 2014).

Author : Katherine Aron-Beller
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004361081
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Inquisition written by Katherine Aron-Beller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first inquisitorial study that analyses the working relationship between the headquarters of the Inquisition in early modern Rome, the Sacred Congregation and its peripheral inquisitorial tribunals in Italy.

Author : Thomas F. Mayer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812245733
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, C. 1590-1640 written by Thomas F. Mayer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the Roman Inquisition's own records, diplomatic correspondence, local documents, newsletters, and other sources, Thomas F. Mayer provides an intricately detailed account of the ways the Inquisition operated to serve the papacy's long-standing political aims in Naples, Venice, and Florence between 1590 and 1640.

Author : Stephan Wendehorst
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406222
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews written by Stephan Wendehorst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on ongoing research in the archive of the former Roman Inquisition, this volume presents new perspectives for research on the relations between the Catholic Church, Jews and Judaism and places them within the context of the extant scholarship on papal policy, censorship and the Marrano milieu.

Author : Thomas F. Mayer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812244737
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Inquisition written by Thomas F. Mayer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the Roman Inquisition's own records, diplomatic correspondence, local documents, newsletters, and other sources, Thomas F. Mayer provides an intricately detailed account of the ways the Inquisition operated to serve the papacy's long-standing political aims in Naples, Venice, and Florence between 1590 and 1640.

Author : John A. Tedeschi
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prosecution of Heresy written by John A. Tedeschi and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of studies on the judicial processes by which the Inquisition combatted Protestantism, witchcraft and occultism.

Author : Autori Vari
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Trends in the Historiography of Inquisitions written by Autori Vari and published by Viella Libreria Editrice. This book was released on 2023-12-13T15:58:00+01:00 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume launches the book series of “Inquire – International Centre for Research on Inquisitions” of the University of Bologna, a research network that engages with the history of religious justice from the 13th to the 20th century. This first publication offers twenty chapters that take stock of the current historiography on medieval and early modern Inquisitions (the Spanish, Portuguese and Roman Inquisitions) and their modern continuations. Through the analysis of specific questions related to religious repression in Europe and the Iberian colonial territories extending from the Middle Ages to today, the contributions here examine the history of the perception of tribunals and the most recent historiographical trends. New research perspectives thus emerge on a subject that continues to intrigue those interested in the practices of justice and censorship, the history of religious dissent and the genesis of intolerance in the Western world and beyond.

Author : Claire Norton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317159799
Total Pages : 235 pages
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Download or read book Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean written by Claire Norton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and geographic boundaries. Reading between the lines of a wide variety of sources, however, suggests that religious conversion between Christianity, Judaism and Islam often had a more pragmatic and prosaic aspect that constituted a form of cultural translation and a means of establishing communal belonging through the shared, and often contested articulation of religious identities. The chapters in this volume do not view religion simply as a specific set of orthodox beliefs and strict practices to be adopted wholesale by the religious individual or convert. Rather, they analyze conversion as the acquisition of a set of historically contingent social practices, which facilitated the process of social, political or religious acculturation. Exploring the role conversion played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities, the volume examines the idea of the convert as a mediator and translator between cultures. Drawing upon a diverse range of research areas and linguistic skills, the volume utilises primary sources in Ottoman, Persian, Arabic, Latin, German, Hungarian and English within a variety of genres including religious tracts, diplomatic correspondence, personal memoirs, apologetics, historical narratives, official documents and commands, legal texts and court records, and religious polemics. As a result, the collection provides readers with theoretically informed, new research on the subject of conversion to or from Islam in the early modern Mediterranean world.

Author : Charlotte-Rose Millar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134769814
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England written by Charlotte-Rose Millar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a rereading of English witchcraft, one which moves away from an older historiography which underplays the role of the Devil in English witchcraft and instead highlights the crucial role that the Devil, often in the form of a familiar spirit, took in English witchcraft belief. One of the key ways in which this book explores the role of the Devil is through emotions. Stories of witches were made up of a complex web of emotionally implicated accusers, victims, witnesses, and supposed perpetrators. They reveal a range of emotional experiences that do not just stem from malefic witchcraft but also, and primarily, from a witch’s links with the Devil. This book, then, has two main objectives. First, to suggest that English witchcraft pamphlets challenge our understanding of English witchcraft as a predominantly non-diabolical crime, and second, to highlight how witchcraft narratives emphasized emotions as the primary motivation for witchcraft acts and accusations.

Author : Tracey A. Sowerby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351736914
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800 written by Tracey A. Sowerby and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World offers a new contribution to the ongoing reassessment of early modern international relations and diplomatic history. Divided into three parts, it provides an examination of diplomatic culture from the Renaissance into the eighteenth century and presents the development of diplomatic practices as more complex, multifarious and globally interconnected than the traditional state-focussed, national paradigm allows. The volume addresses three central and intertwined themes within early modern diplomacy: who and what could claim diplomatic agency and in what circumstances; the social and cultural contexts in which diplomacy was practised; and the role of material culture in diplomatic exchange. Together the chapters provide a broad geographical and chronological presentation of the development of diplomatic practices and, through a strong focus on the processes and significance of cultural exchanges between polities, demonstrate how it was possible for diplomats to negotiate the cultural codes of the courts to which they were sent. This exciting collection brings together new and established scholars of diplomacy from different academic traditions. It will be essential reading for all students of diplomatic history.