Stettin Revised: Redating a Major Medieval Inquisition of Heresy

Mirator 1/24, 2024

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2018

Bespreking van: H.H. Schwedt,Die romische Inquisition. Kardinale und Konsultoren 1601 bis 1700 Freiburg-Basel-Wien:Herder ,2017 9783451348679

Cahiers de Fanjeaux

Viator 17, 2006

Church History, 1999

The Medieval Age: An Era of Persecutions and Inquisitions Researched and compiled by Wm. F. Bekgaard, 2024

Persecutions arise from intolerance: mainly from ideologues, racial prejudice, and religion. Here we are only concerned with those tribulations stemming from religion. Religious persecutions have been found to exist far back in time. The ancient heathens had systems of worship of pagan deities. Villages, hamlets and colonies were isolated and many had their own unique beliefs. These cults at times persecute others in the name of their deities. Suspicion and the bonds of uniformity caused a tyranny against any deviation from “orthodoxy.” WFB Research Source: The History of the Inquisition Philippus van Limborch 1731

2025

The intricate relationship between the Roman Church and the Christian East has long been underestimated in shaping early modern Catholicism. Similarly, scholarship on the Inquisition has largely overlooked how it interacted with members of the Eastern branch of Christianity. Yet these groups frequently faced the scrutiny of the judges of the faith, who were, in turn, exposed to alternative disciplinary and doctrinal models that questioned Catholic certainties. This volume delves into the debates surrounding the compatibility of Eastern norms and traditions with the principles of the Counter-Reformation, focusing on Greek, Arab, and Slavic communities, as well as Armenians, Ethiopians, and Syriac Christians from the Ottoman Empire and India, among others. The essays examine topics such as the confessional surveillance of Eastern Christians in Catholic territories and the responses of Roman theologians to thorny questions posed by missionaries around the globe. Through a meticulous study of rich, untapped archival resources in a wide array of languages, this collection reveals how the interaction with Eastern Christianity exposed some of the contradictions and unresolved problems of Tridentine Catholicism, while providing the Inquisition with a set of cultural tools and interpretive lenses that would eventually be applied in the missionary and theological controversies that shook the Catholic world from the seventeenth century onwards. Chapters 1, 2, 7 and 12 are available here as Open Access under the Licence CC BY-NC-ND

Open Library of Humanities (New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records), 2019

MS 609 of the Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse contains the registry of the largest known medieval inquisition, the so-called ‘Great Inquisition’ lead by two Dominicans at Toulouse between 1245 and 1246. Since its discovery in the nineteenth century, this registry has remained unedited and is rarely studied in detail. Yet it has become famous for being the record of a broad inquisition into the ‘general state of the faith’, one that affirms that Catharism – the theory of a dualist, organized heretical counter-Church which brought the Albigensian crusade and eventual inquisition to the lands of the Count of Toulouse – was widespread between Toulouse and Carcassonne. This article argues that the registry does not record any general survey of Cathar heresy among the population, but rather it records an inquisition principally aimed at collecting evidence against village consulates who had no greater or lesser relationship to any ‘heresy’ than the rest of the population. This argument is made by challenging the historiographic bias towards sampling the registry anecdotally, replacing it with an evaluation based on a combination of macroanalysis and close reading facilitated by the author’s digital edition of MS 609 and network analysis techniques. [Double-blind peer reviewed]