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Christine Caldwell Ames - Righteous Persecution: Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages - 9780812241334 - V9780812241334
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Righteous Persecution: Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages

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Description for Righteous Persecution: Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages Hardback. Inquisitors from the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, crafted and promoted Christian meanings for their persecution of heresy in medieval Europe. With a mixture of existing religious beliefs, new interpretations, and responses to criticism, Dominicans shaped a medieval Christianity that permitted-or demanded-inquisitorial repression. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HRAM7; HRAM9; HRAX; HRC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 620.

Righteous Persecution examines the long-controversial involvement of the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, with inquisitions into heresy in medieval Europe. From their origin in the thirteenth century, the Dominicans were devoted to a ministry of preaching, teaching, and pastoral care, to "save souls" particularly tempted by the Christian heresies popular in western Europe. Many persons then, and scholars in our own time, have asked how members of a pastoral order modeled on Christ and the apostles could engage themselves so enthusiastically in the repressive persecution that constituted heresy inquisitions: the arrest, interrogation, torture, punishment, and sometimes execution of those who ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Condition
New
Weight
620 g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812241334
SKU
V9780812241334
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About Christine Caldwell Ames
Christine Caldwell Ames teaches history at the University of South Carolina.

Reviews for Righteous Persecution: Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages
"This rich, exhaustive, and highly focused study sets a new standard for thoroughness among scholars seeking to comprehend the inner logic and workings of religious persecution in medieval Christendom."
Speculum
"I know of no other book that so systematically reviews the question of how Dominicans themselves thought about the relationship of interrogation and torture, truth and pain, persecution ... Read more

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