Medievalists.net » Inquisition http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Movie Review: Dangerous Beauty http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/28/movie-review-dangerous-beauty/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/28/movie-review-dangerous-beauty/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:38:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60571 Late 16th century Venice, where a woman can be a nun, a wife or a courtesan. For Veronica Franco, the free spirited girl scorned by because of her lack of wealth, the choice is an obvious one...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/13/witches-looked-medieval-art/feed/ 0 ‘Forget Your People and Your Father’s House’: Teresa de Cartagena and the Converso Identity http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/forget-people-fathers-house-teresa-de-cartagena-converso-identity/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/forget-people-fathers-house-teresa-de-cartagena-converso-identity/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:32:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54586 Religion is a very important factor to take into consideration in discussions about the identity of the conversos [converts] or New Christians, an emerging group in 15th-century Castile.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/forget-people-fathers-house-teresa-de-cartagena-converso-identity/feed/ 0 Does a Reformation End?: Rethinking Religious Simulation in Sixteenth-Century Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:08:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53493 A paper examining the Italian Reformation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/feed/ 0 The Friars Preachers: The First Hundred Years of the Dominican Order http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/friars-preachers-first-hundred-years-dominican-order/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/friars-preachers-first-hundred-years-dominican-order/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:40:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52412 When Dominic of Caleruega began preaching in southern France in the early 1200s, he would have had no idea of the far reaching influence that the band of men he would attract would leave such a broad and enduring influence on medieval history.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/friars-preachers-first-hundred-years-dominican-order/feed/ 0 Sodomy and the Knights Templar http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/26/sodomy-and-the-knights-templar/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/26/sodomy-and-the-knights-templar/#comments Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:51:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47047 In this article, I will analyze testimony relevant to the charges of the Inquisition that members of the order of Knights Templar throughout Christendom practiced homosexual acts of various sorts from illicit kisses to sodomy.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/26/sodomy-and-the-knights-templar/feed/ 0 Between Official and Private Dispute: The Case of Christian Spain and Provence in the Late Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/15/between-official-and-private-dispute-the-case-of-christian-spain-and-provence-in-the-late-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/15/between-official-and-private-dispute-the-case-of-christian-spain-and-provence-in-the-late-middle-ages/#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:15:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46694 Literary and historical evidence of religious disputes that took place between Jews and Christians during the Middle Ages exists in a varietyof sources.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/15/between-official-and-private-dispute-the-case-of-christian-spain-and-provence-in-the-late-middle-ages/feed/ 0 A Comparison of Interrogation in Two Inquisitorial Courts of the Fourteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/27/a-comparison-of-interrogation-in-two-inquisitorial-courts-of-the-fourteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/27/a-comparison-of-interrogation-in-two-inquisitorial-courts-of-the-fourteenth-century/#comments Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:22:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42401 The spread of the Cathar heresy in Western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was perceived as a real challenge to orthodoxy. The Catholic Church soon employed all means possible in a reaction against this dualistic religion, which was especially widespread in the south of France and in central and northern Italy.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/27/a-comparison-of-interrogation-in-two-inquisitorial-courts-of-the-fourteenth-century/feed/ 0 ‘Cast out into the hellish night’: Pagan Virtue and Pagan Poetics in Lorenzo Valla’s De voluptate http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/cast-out-into-the-hellish-night-pagan-virtue-and-pagan-poetics-in-lorenzo-vallas-de-voluptate/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/cast-out-into-the-hellish-night-pagan-virtue-and-pagan-poetics-in-lorenzo-vallas-de-voluptate/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:21:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42230 Valla wrote about Epicureanism before the Renaissance rediscovery of classical Epicurean texts. Poggio Bracciolini had not yet circulated his newly-discovered manuscript of first century Epicurean philosopher Lucretius’ De rerum natura, and Valla wrote without access to Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Philosophers, which discussed Epicurus’ teachings in greater detail.

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