Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200–1700: Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages

Edited by Peter Biller and L J Sackville

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Peter Biller and L. J. Sackville Part I: Medieval 1. Inquisitorial identity and authority in thirteenth-century exegesis and sermons; Jean Halgrin d'Abbeville, Jacques de Vitry and Humbert of Romans Jessalynn Lea Bird 2. Shaping the image of the heretics: The narratio in Gregory IX's letters Alessandro Sala 3. Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accused Jörg Feuchter 4. The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit: the 1332 enquiry into the 'Cowled Nuns' of Swidnica Pawel Kras 5. Late medieval heresiography and the categorisation of Eastern Christianity Irene Bueno 6. The portrayal of the Waldensian Brethren in the De vita et conversacione (c. 1391-3) Appendix: De vita et conversacione: edition and translation of the Weimar Ms Reima Välimäki 7. Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts: the case of Petrus Zwicker's Cum dormirent homines Adam Poznanski 8. Constructing narratives of witchcraft Richard Kieckhefer Part II: Early Modern 9. 'Ut ex vetustis membranis cognosco': Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manuals Harald Bollbuck 10. The 'Cathars as Protestant' myth and the formation of heterodox identity in the French Wars of Religion Luc Racaut 11. The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records in Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Doat Mss 21-26 Shelagh Sneddon 12. History in the Dominican Convent in Toulouse in 1666 and 1668: Antonin Réginald and Jean de Doat Appendix: Antonin Réginald, Chronicon inquisitorum, edition and translation of excerpts, 1240-1340 Peter Biller 13. The Roman Inquisition: between reality and myth Michaela Valente