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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1640: Social Belief and Dissidence, II: Constructing Heretical Belief in Inquisition Trial Records

Thursday 7 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Centre for the Digital Research of Religion & Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), Masarykova Univerzita, Brno
Organisers:Robert Shaw, Oriel College, University of Oxford
David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
Moderator/Chair:David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
Paper 1640-aThe Inquisitorial Punishment of Belief: A Statistical Analysis of the Effects of Social and Theological Beliefs in Peter Seila's Register of Sentences, 1241-42
(Language: English)
Robert Shaw, Oriel College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Law, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1640-bHow Did Inquisitors Interrogate over 5,500 People in Just 15 Months at Toulouse?: Findings from the Edition of Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 609
(Language: English)
Jean-Paul Rehr, CIHAM - Histoire, archéologie, littératures des mondes chrétiens et musulmans médiévaux (UMR 5648), Université Lyon 2
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Social History
Paper 1640-cBureaucracy and Belief: The Institutionalisation of Religion in the Early Inquisition Tribunals
(Language: English)
Lucy Sackville, Exeter College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Theology
Abstract

Rather than something other-worldly, transcendent, internal, and somewhat intangible for the purposes of historical study, beliefs are very 'external' and social - not only socially communicated but also socially formed and remoulded. This panel looks at dissident, polemical, and inquisitorial sources in order to address the social dynamics of dissident beliefs, the channels and techniques of their transmission (be it orally or through writings). It also addresses the social processes that influenced their 'construction' by inquisitors and other churchmen in trial records, sermons, inquisitors' manuals, and polemical literature concerning heresy, the latter of which exerted tangible impact on the discursive formation of 'religion' in European thought.