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Book SynopsisHistoriographical survey of inquisition texts, from lists of questions to inquisitor's manual, studies their role in the suppression of heresy. Did you see a heretic? When? Where? Who else was there?'. The inquisitor is questioning, and a suspect is replying; a notary is translating from the vernacular into Latin, and writing it down, abbreviating and omitting at will; later there is the reading out of a sentence in public and then, in a few cases, burning. At every stage there is a text: a list of questions, for example, or an inquisitor's how-to-do it manual. The substance and intention of these texts forms the subject of this book. The introduction brings them all together in an historiographical survey of the role of texts in the suppression of heresy, and the volume is crowned by the Quodlibet lecture, in which the doyen of all heresy historians, ALEXANDER PATSCHOVSKY, magisterially surveys the political nature of heresy accusations. Contributors: MARK PEGG, PETER BILLER, CATERINA BRUSCHI, JAMES GIVEN, JOHN ARNOLD, JESSALYN BIRD, ANNE HUDSON, ALEXANDER PATSCHOVSKY.
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Table of ContentsTexts and the Repression of Heresy: Introduction (with Peter Biller) - Caterina Bruschi Texts and the Repression of Heresy: Introduction (with Caterina Bruschi) - Peter Biller Heresy and Society: On the Political Function of Heresy in the Medieval World - Dr Alexander Patschovsky The Construction of Orthodoxy and the (De)construction of Heretical Attacks on the Eucharist in Pastoralia from Peter the Chanter's Circle in ParisPeter the Chanter's Circle in Paris - Jessalynn Bird Inquisition, Texts and Discourse - John Arnold 'Magna diligentia est habenda per inquisitorem': Precautions before Reading Doat 21-26 - Caterina Bruschi Questions about Questions: Manuscript 609 and the Great Inquisition of 1245-6 - Mark Pegg Why no Food? Waldensian Followers in Bernard Gui's Practica inquisitionis and culpe - Peter Biller The Béguins in Bernard Gui's Liber Sententiarum - James B Given Fingerprinting an Anonymous Description of the Waldensians. Appendix: Edition and Translation of the De vita et actibus - Peter Biller The 'Register in the Register': Reflections on the Doat 32 Dossier - Caterina Bruschi Which Wyche? The Framing of the Lollard Heretic and/or Saint - Anne Hudson
