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Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700

By Peter Biller (Editor), L J Sackville (Editor), Peter Biller (Contribution by), L J Sackville (Contribution by), Jessalynn Bird (Contribution by), Alessandro Sala (Contribution by), J rg Feuchter (Contribution by), Pawel Kras (Contribution by), Irene Bueno (Contribution by), Reima V lim ki (Contribution by), Adam Poznanski (Contribution by), Richard Kieckhefer (Contribution by), Harald Bollbuck (Contribution by), Luc Racaut (Contribution by), Shelagh Sneddon (Contribution by), Michaela Valente (Contribution by)
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By Peter Biller (Editor), L J Sackville (Editor), Peter Biller (Contribution by), L J Sackville (Contribution by), Jessalynn Bird (Contribution by), Alessandro Sala (Contribution by), J rg Feuchter (Contribution by), Pawel Kras (Contribution by), Irene Bueno (Contribution by), Reima V lim ki (Contribution by), Adam Poznanski (Contribution by), Richard Kieckhefer (Contribution by), Harald Bollbuck (Contribution by), Luc Racaut (Contribution by), Shelagh Sneddon (Contribution by), Michaela Valente (Contribution by)
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Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.


The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control information and to produce authoritative discourses from it — a fact not lost on contemporaries, or on later commentators. Understanding that relationship between inquisition and knowledge has been one of the principal drivers of its lo...

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