Judging Faith, Punishing Sin breaks new ground by offering the first comparative treatment of Catholic inquisitions and Calvinist consistories, offering scholars a new framework for analysing religious reform and social discipline in the great Christian age of reformation. Global in scope, both institutions played critical roles in prosecuting deviance, implementing religious uniformity, and promoting moral discipline in the social upheaval of the Reformation. Rooted in local archives and addressing specific themes, the essays survey the state of scholarship and chart directions for future...
Judging Faith, Punishing Sin breaks new ground by offering the first comparative treatment of Catholic inquisitions and Calvinist consistories, offeri...
The first comparative analysis of Catholic inquisitions and Calvinist consistories from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, both institutions with critical roles in the social upheaval of the Reformation. This volume offers a new framework for analysing religious reform and social discipline in the early modern world.
The first comparative analysis of Catholic inquisitions and Calvinist consistories from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, both institutions with ...
