Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-ix

List of Contributors

pp x-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-34

Part I - Medieval

pp 35-36

1 - Inquisitorial identity and authority in thirteenth-century exegesis and sermons: Jean Halgrin d’Abbeville, Jacques de Vitry and Humbert of Romans

pp 37-56

2 - Shaping the image of the heretics: The narratio in Gregory IX’s letters

pp 57-71

3 - Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accused

pp 72-109

4 - The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit: the 1332 enquiry into the ‘Cowled Nuns’ of Świdnica

pp 110-134

5 - Late medieval heresiography and the categorisation of Eastern Christianity

pp 135-156

6 - The portrayal of the Waldensian Brethren in the De vita et conversacione (c. 1391–3) Appendix: De vita et conversacione: edition and translation of the Weimar Ms

pp 157-177

7 - Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts: the case of Petrus Zwicker’s Cum dormirent homines

pp 178-194

8 - Constructing narratives of witchcraft

pp 195-208

Part II - Early Modern

pp 209-210

9 - ‘Ut ex vetustis membranis cognosco’: Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manuals

pp 211-237

10 - The ‘Cathars as Protestant’ myth and the formation of heterodox identity in the French Wars of Religion

pp 238-254

11 - The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records in Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Doat Mss 21–26

pp 255-272

12 - History in the Dominican Convent in Toulouse in 1666 and 1668: Antonin Réginald and Jean de Doat

pp 273-316

13 - The Roman Inquisition: between reality and myth

pp 317-334

Index

pp 335-346