The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo
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While the Spanish Inquisition has laid the greatest claim to both scholarly attention and the popular imagination, the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542 and a key instrument of papal authority, was more powerful, important, and long-lived. Founded by Paul III and originally aimed to eradicate Protestant heresy, it followed medieval antecedents but went beyond them by becoming a highly articulated centralized organ directly dependent on the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812244737
ISBN13:9780812244731
Release Date:February 2013
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:392 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"
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