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

• Autore: Tavuzzi Michael M
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 272/.20945
• Soggetto topico: Inquisition - Italy, Northern; Church history - 15th century; Church history - 16th century; Renaissance - Italy, Northern
• Soggetto geografico: Italy, Northern Church history
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Renaissance inquisitors
• ISBN: 1-281-93621-9; 9786611936211; 90-474-2060-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782576903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; ; v. 134.