Companion to Heresy Inquisitions

Donald S. Prudlo, Ph.D. (2004), University of Virginia, is Professor of Medieval History at Jacksonville State University. He has published works on inquisitions, saints and sainthood, and Church history, most recently Certain Sainthood (Cornell, 2016)

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionDonald S. PrudloPart 1: Origins of Inquisitions of Heretical Depravity1 The Spiritual Foundations of Christian Heresy InquisitionsChristine Caldwell Ames2 Precursors to Religious Inquisitions: Anti-Heretical efforts to 1184Michael FrassettoPart 2: Medieval Inquisitions3 The Fourth Lateran Ordo of Inquisition Adapted to the Prosecution of HeresyHenry Ansgar Kelly4 The Church’s Institutional Response to Heresy in the 13th CenturyLucy Sackville5 Heresy Inquisitions in the Later Middle AgesRobin VosePart 3: The Iberian Inquisitions6 The Spanish Inquisition and the Converso Challenge (c.1480–1525): A Question of Race, Religion or Socio-Political Ascendancy?Helen Rawlings7 The Metamorphosis of the Spanish Inquisition, 1520–1648Werner Thomas8 The Rise of the Modern Inquisition in Portugal and Brazil, and the Transformation of Jews and New Christians into HereticsLúcia Helena CostiganPart 4: The Italian Inquisitions9 The Takeover of the Roman InquisitionElena Bonora10 Politics, Diplomacy and Religious Dissent. The Activity of the Inquisition in Early Modern VeniceFederico BarbieratoBibliographyIndex