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Righteous Persecution : Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812201093
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Righteous PersecutionDDC classification:
  • 272.2
LOC classification:
  • BX3506.3 -- .A44 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: In the Garden -- Chapter 1 The Wolves and the Sheep -- Chapter 2 Holy Inquisitors -- Chapter 3 The Burning Torch -- Part II: Inquisition as Divine Discipline -- Chapter 4 Souls and Bodies -- Chapter 5 The Deserved Punishment -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Inquisitors from the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, crafted and promoted Christian meanings for their persecution of heresy in medieval Europe. With a mixture of existing religious beliefs, new interpretations, and responses to criticism, Dominicans shaped a medieval Christianity that permitted--or demanded--inquisitorial repression.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: In the Garden -- Chapter 1 The Wolves and the Sheep -- Chapter 2 Holy Inquisitors -- Chapter 3 The Burning Torch -- Part II: Inquisition as Divine Discipline -- Chapter 4 Souls and Bodies -- Chapter 5 The Deserved Punishment -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Inquisitors from the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, crafted and promoted Christian meanings for their persecution of heresy in medieval Europe. With a mixture of existing religious beliefs, new interpretations, and responses to criticism, Dominicans shaped a medieval Christianity that permitted--or demanded--inquisitorial repression.

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