{"product_id":"righteous-persecution-inquisition-dominicans-and-christianity-in-the-middle-ages-the-middle-ages-series-9780812241334","title":"Righteous Persecution Inquisition Dominicans and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRighteous Persecution\u003c\/i\u003e examines the long-controversial involvement of the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, with inquisitions into heresy in medieval Europe. From their origin in the thirteenth century, the Dominicans were devoted to a ministry of preaching, teaching, and pastoral care, to save souls particularly tempted by the Christian heresies popular in western Europe. Many persons then, and scholars in our own time, have asked how members of a pastoral order modeled on Christ and the apostles could engage themselves so enthusiastically in the repressive persecution that constituted heresy inquisitions: the arrest, interrogation, torture, punishment, and sometimes execution of those who deviated in belief from Roman Christianity.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on an extraordinarily wide base of ecclesiastical documents, Christine Caldwell Ames recounts how Dominican inquisitors and their supporters crafted and promoted explicitly Christian meanings for their inquisitorial persecution. Inqu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This rich, exhaustive, and highly focused study sets a new standard for thoroughness among scholars seeking to comprehend the inner logic and workings of religious persecution in medieval Christendom.\" * \u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"I know of no other book that so systematically reviews the question of how Dominicans themselves thought about the relationship of interrogation and torture, truth and pain, persecution and divinity. There are few topics more vital-especially at present-than a study into the relationship of religion and violence. \u003ci\u003eRighteous Persecution\u003c\/i\u003e is an important and lasting contribution to scholarship.\" * Mark Gregory Pegg, Washington University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I: IN THE GARDEN\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The Wolves and the Sheep\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Holy Inquisitors\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Burning Torch\u003cbr\u003e PART II: INQUISITION AS DIVINE DISCIPLINE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Souls and Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: The Deserved Punishment\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405714432343,"sku":"9780812241334","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812241334.jpg?v=1730493376","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/righteous-persecution-inquisition-dominicans-and-christianity-in-the-middle-ages-the-middle-ages-series-9780812241334","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}