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Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700

Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700

Biller, Peter
Sackville, L. J.
Biller, Peter

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Series: Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages, Book 10

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryReligion General

ISBN10: 191404925X
ISBN13: 9781914049255
Publisher: York Medieval Press
Published: Jun 1 2024
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.

The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control information and to produce authoritative discourses from it - a fact not lost on contemporaries, or on later commentators. Understanding that relationship between inquisition and knowledge has been one of the principal drivers of its long historiography. Inquisitors and their historians have always been preoccupied with the process by which information was gathered and recirculated as knowledge. The tenor of that question has changed over time, but we are still asking how knowledge was made and handed down - to them and to us - and how their sense of what was interesting or useful affected their selection.

This volume approaches the theme by looking at heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages, and also at how they were seen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The contributors consider a wide range of medieval texts, including papal bulls, sermons, polemical treatises and records of interrogations, both increasing our knowledge of medieval heresy and inquisition, and at the same time delineating the twisting of knowledge. This polarity continues in the early modern period, when scholars appeared to advance learning by hunting for medieval manuscripts and publishing them, or ensuring their preservation through copying them; but at the same time, as some of the chapters here show, these were proof texts in the service of Catholic or Protestant polemic. As a whole, the collection provides a clear view of - and invites readers' reflection on - the shading of truth and untruth in medieval and early modern knowledge of heresy and inquisition.

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