The Roman Inquisition: Centre versus Peripheries (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004340181 ISBN 13: 9789004340183

Publisher: Brill, 2018

Synopsis

In The Roman Inquisition: Centre versus Peripheries, two inquisitorial scholars, Black who has published on the institutional history of the Italian Inquisitions and Aron-Beller whose area of expertise are trials against Jews before the peripheral Modenese inquisition, jointly edit an essay collection that studies the relationship between the Sacred Congregation in Rome and its peripheral inquisitorial tribunals. The book analyses inquisitorial collaborations in Rome, correspondence between the Centre and its peripheries, as well as the actions of these sub-central tribunals. It discusses the extent to which the controlling tendencies of the Centre filtered down and affected the peripheries, and how the tribunals were in fact prevented by local political considerations from achieving the homogenizing effect desired by Rome.

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About the Author

Katherine Aron-Beller, Ph.D (Haifa, 2002) is lecturer in Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University. Her first book Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena 1598-1638 (Manchester University Press) was published in 2011.

Christopher Black, B.Litt, (Oxford 1967), is Emeritus Professor of Italian History, Glasgow University. His monographs include Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century (1989), Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Italy (2004), and most recently The Italian Inquisition (2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004340181
• ISBN 13: 9789004340183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 428
• Editor: Aron-Beller Katherine, Black Christopher