The Prosecution of Heresy. Collected Studies on the Inquisition Italy
Tedeschi, John. The Prosecution of Heresy. Collected Studies on the Inquisition in Early Modern Italy. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1991. xxii, 417 pp. Illustrations. ISBN: 86698089X; ISBN: 9780866980890. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies volume 78. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamps spine and front cover. Fine. $125. * These essays concentrate on the activities of Congregations of the Inquisition and Index, established by the Catholic Church in the 16th century. They represent a pioneering effort to understand objectively the judicial processes and theories which constituted Inquisitorial law through critical, firsthand examination of a broad range of primary sources. They overturn traditional platitudes and sterotypes which have been associated with the Holy Office, and persuasively argue that in legal terms the Inquisition provided surpisingly modern and progressive forms of criminal justice. (Publisher's description). A series of studies on the judicial processes by which the Inquisition combatted Protestantism, witchcraft and occultism.
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