Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Imagining Inquisition
- 1 Inquisition, Public Fame and Confession: General Rules and English Practice
- 2 The Imperatives of Denunciatio: Disclosing Others' Sins to Disciplinary Authorities
- 3 English Provincial Constitutions and Inquisition into Lollardy
- 4 The Contest over the Public Imagination of Inquisition, 1380–1430
- 5 ‘Vttirli Onknowe’? Modes of Inquiry and the Dynamics of Interiority in Vernacular Literature
- 6 From Defacement to Restoration: Inquisition, Confession and Thomas Usk's Appeal and Testament of Love
- 7 Confession, Inquisition and Exemplarity in The Erle of Tolous and Other Middle English Romances
- 8 Heresy Inquisition and Authorship, 1400–1560
- 9 Imitating Inquisition: Dialectical Bias in Protestant Prison Writings
- 10 Response Essay: Chaucer's Inquisition
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - The Imperatives of Denunciatio: Disclosing Others' Sins to Disciplinary Authorities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Imagining Inquisition
- 1 Inquisition, Public Fame and Confession: General Rules and English Practice
- 2 The Imperatives of Denunciatio: Disclosing Others' Sins to Disciplinary Authorities
- 3 English Provincial Constitutions and Inquisition into Lollardy
- 4 The Contest over the Public Imagination of Inquisition, 1380–1430
- 5 ‘Vttirli Onknowe’? Modes of Inquiry and the Dynamics of Interiority in Vernacular Literature
- 6 From Defacement to Restoration: Inquisition, Confession and Thomas Usk's Appeal and Testament of Love
- 7 Confession, Inquisition and Exemplarity in The Erle of Tolous and Other Middle English Romances
- 8 Heresy Inquisition and Authorship, 1400–1560
- 9 Imitating Inquisition: Dialectical Bias in Protestant Prison Writings
- 10 Response Essay: Chaucer's Inquisition
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Si autem peccaverit in te frater tuus, vade, et corripe eum inter te et ipsum solum; si te audierit, lucratus eris fratrem tuum; si autem te non audierit, adhibe tecum adhuc unum, vel duos, ut in ore duorum, vel trium testium stet omne verbum. Quod si non audierit eos, dic ecclesiae. Si autem ecclesiam non audierit, sit tibi sicut ethnicus et publicanus.
[If your brother shall offend against you, go and rebuke him, between you and him alone. If he shall hear you, you shall gain your brother. And, if he will not hear you, take with you one or two more, that in the mouth of two of three witnesses, every word may stand. And, if he will not hear them, tell the church. And, if he will not hear the church, let him be to you as the heathen and publican.]
(Matthew 18:15–17)This lex evangelica (Gospel law, revealed law) or precept, as both pastoral writers and canonists term it, seems to establish a simple four-step procedure for dealing with sin within Christian communities: one-on-one admonition; if that fails to correct the sinner, admonition with witnesses; if that fails, divulging the sin to the church; if that fails, expulsion.
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- The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England , pp. 30 - 44Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013