IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1233: Heresy and Repression, II: Righteous Persecution, or Doing Justice to the Inquisitors
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Turku Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (TUCEMEMS), University of Turku |
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| Organiser: | David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sita Steckel, Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| Paper 1233-a | The Myth of the Myth of the Inquisitor: Henry Charles Lea and His Readers (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Paper 1233-b | Judge or Converter?: Petrus Zwicker and Two Aspects of the Inquisitor's Office (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Genealogy and Prosopography, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The last few years have witnessed a growing interest in the self-images and 'inner lives' (cf. Karen Sullivan, 2011) of medieval inquisitors. Historians have been searching for fair representations of the inquisitors and their motives for persecuting religious dissidents, and have been increasingly aware of political agendas in scholarship on the inquisition. This session, whose title is inspired by the seminal book 'Righteous Persecution' by Christine Caldwell Ames (2009), will bring together scholars interested in post-Enlightenment ways of representing inquisitors and will contribute to the debate with specific case studies, these placed in a more general framework in the response. |