1st Edition
The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era
By Germano Maifreda
Copyright 2017
292 Pages
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Routledge
300 Pages
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Routledge
300 Pages
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Routledge
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Established in 1542, the Roman Inquisition operated through a network of almost fifty tribunals to combat heretical and heterodox threats within the papal territories. Whilst its theological, institutional and political aspects have been well-studied, until now no sustained work has been undertaken to understand the financial basis upon which it operated. Yet – as The Business of the Roman... Read more
Introduction
Part I: The Economy of the Holy Office
1. The Financing of the Inquisitorial System
2. Managing the Courts of Faith
3. Monetary Penalties and the Building of the Inquisitorial Machine
Part II: The Inquisition and Economic Life
4. "The Citizen Dies, the Man Remains": Confiscation
5. A Pervasive Inquisition
6. The Inquisitor Between Land and Finance
Epilogue
Biography
Germano Maifreda is Professor of Economic History at the Department of Historical Studies of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy).
