The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era

ISBN-13: 9780367264116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 292 str.

Germano Maifreda

Opis

This is the first book that describes, on the basis of unpublished Vatican documents, the ways in which the machinery of the Papal Inquisition functioned, producing an incessant effort to build trials as well as public consensus, so as to maximize its efficiency in repressing heresy.

O autorze

Germano Maifreda is Professor of Economic History at the Department of Historical Studies of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy).