IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1613: Religious Dissent, Reform, and Repression, II: Early Inquisitors in Context
Thursday 4 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
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| Organiser: | David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Moderator/Chair: | Reima Välimäki, Department of Cultural History / Turku Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Turku |
| Paper 1613-a | Conrad of Marburg: Inquisitor or Heresy Hunter? (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1613-b | Robert le Bougre: The First French Inquisitor? (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Social History |
| Paper 1613-c | Perceptions of Inquisitors in South-West France between 1280 and 1325 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Abstract | This session focuses on the early development of the papal inquisition. The first two papers explore the very first generation of inquisitors (or heresy-hunters?) in the 1230's through two infamous figures, Conrad of Marburg and Robert le Bougre. In the classical histories of the inquisition, both serve as examples of inquisitorial abuses, if not sadism. However, they can also be seen as experimenters who struggled to find and impose new ways of handling heresy in their respective local contexts by drawing on quite varied cultural resources. The session will close with a paper allowing comparison of this fresh assessment of sources on Conrad of Marburg and Robert le Bougre with the changing perception of the inquisition in 1280s-1320s, representative of the more institutionalised and standardized procedure of inquisitio heretice pravitatis. |