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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806844503321

Autore

Tavuzzi Michael M

Titolo

Renaissance inquisitors [[electronic resource] ] : Dominican inquisitors and inquisitorial districts in Northern Italy, 1474-1527 / / by Michael Tavuzzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-281-93621-9

9786611936211

90-474-2060-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Studies in the history of Christian traditions, , 1573-5664 ; ; v. 134

Disciplina

272/.20945

Soggetti

Inquisition - Italy, Northern

Church history - 15th century

Church history - 16th century

Renaissance - Italy, Northern

Italy, Northern Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Inquisitors and inquisitorial districts -- Conventuals and observants -- Administrators, courtiers, and academics -- Surveillants of minorities -- Witch-hunters.

Sommario/riassunto

During the Renaissance there was no centralized Inquisition in northern Italy until Pope Paul III founded the Roman Inquisition in 1542, but there was a dense network of autonomous papal inquisitors. Based on extensive archival research, this study investigates the life of the Dominican friars from whom these inquisitors were mostly drawn. It focuses on a selection of hitherto almost unknown but representative inquisitors to cast new light on their formation, appointment and careers, as well as their principal pursuits - the prosecution of heretics, especially Waldensians and Judaizers, and, most of all, the hunting of witches, for it was at its most intense in northern Italy during the Renaissance, over a century before reaching its peak in Northern Europe.