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Tolerance, regulation and rescue concerns the experiences of women and children living on the margins of mainstream society in the old Italian states. Both groups were deemed 'disreputable' - the women (including prostitutes and concubines) due to their being caught up in sexual relationships outside marriage, and the foundling children due to their illegitimacy, since many were born out of wedlock and 'cast out' by their blood parents, to be entrusted to institutions. By discussing their treatment at the hands of governments and of charities such as foundling hospitals, penitential convents...

A paperback edition of a much-acclaimed history of Europe's forgotten Inquisition. Venice in the 16th and 17th centuries was on the frontier between Christianiity and Judaism, being one of the principal points of departure from Europe to the Levant, and of re-entry from the Ottoman Empire. It was often the place where Europeans of Jewish origin made their final choice between Christianity and Judaism, and those who hesitated over their choice, or behaved ambiguously, frequently fell into the hands of the Inquisition.
Pullan examines the social and political purpose of the Inquisition: its...