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 |
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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-a | The 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) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Law, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 1640-b | How 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) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Social History |
Paper 1640-c | Bureaucracy and Belief: The Institutionalisation of Religion in the Early Inquisition Tribunals (Language: English) 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. |