Inquisition and medieval society : power, discipline, and resistance in Languedoc /

"James B. Given analyzes the inquisition in one French region in order to develop a sociology of medieval politics. Established in the early thirteenth century to combat widespread popular heresy, inquisitorial tribunals identified, prosecuted, and punished heretics and their supporters. The in...

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Autor principal: Given, James Buchanan
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Inquisitors and Their Techniques
  • The Technology of Documentation
  • The Technology of Coercive Imprisonment
  • The Technology of Punishment
  • Responses to the Inquisitors
  • Forms of Individual Resistance
  • Forms of Collective Resistance
  • Manipulation
  • The Social and Political Context
  • The Role of Social Stress and Social Strain
  • Structural Constraints
  • Conclusion: The Inquisitors and the Exercise of Political Power in Medieval Europe.