Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700 - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1914049039 ISBN 13 : 9781914049033

Editeur : York Medieval Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

Contributors: Jessalynn Lea Bird, Harald Bollbuck, Irene Bueno, Jörg Feuchter, Richard Kieckhefer, Pawel Kras, Adam Poznanski, Luc Racaut, Alessandro Sala, Shelagh Sneddon, Michaela Valente, Reima Välimäki

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

L.J. SACKVILLE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of York.

Pawel Kras is Associate Professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in Lublin; his main area of study is the systems of the Inquisition in Medieval Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: York Medieval Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914049039
• ISBN 13: 9781914049033
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Biller Professor Peter, Sackville Dr L J
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible