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Cover image: Fitzwilliam Museum MS 278 b, Thomas Aquinas teaching a group of men, by
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ORGANISATION IN ITALY
1250–1350
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INQUISITION AND ITS ORGANISATION IN
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Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages
ISSN 2046–8938
Series editors
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Peter Biller, Department of History, University of York
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Heresy had social, cultural and political implications in the middle ages,
and countering heresy was often a central component in the development of
orthodoxy. This series publishes work on heresy, and the repression of heresy,
from late antiquity to the Reformation, including monographs, collections of
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Previous volumes in the series are listed at the back of this volume.
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Inquisition and its Organisation in
Italy, 1250–1350
Jill Moore
YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS
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First published 2019
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This book is dedicated to
Ron Saroff,
the best of old friends,
who sadly did not live to see its publication
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This book is produced with the generous assistance of a grant from Isobel
Thornley’s Bequest to the University of London
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Contents
List of illustrations viii
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations x
A note on the text xi
Introduction 1
1 Between Church and State: the legal, organisational and financial
framework of inquisition 25
2 Starting work: the practicalities 58
3 The inquisition notary: making actions legal 91
4 Nuncii, heralds and messengers: public voice or ‘social scourge’? 120
5 The familia and the wider support system 144
6 Vicars, socii and the cursus honorum 172
7 The cuckoo in the nest? Inquisitors and their orders 200
8 An uneasy relationship: inquisitor, bishop and civil power 230
Conclusion 258
Bibliography 267
Index 287
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Illustrations
Figure 1: Line drawing of the seal of the inquisition in Treviso 72
Map 1: North–Central Italy, showing places mentioned in the text xii
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Acknowledgements
This book could not have been published without the kind support of a grant
from the Isobel Thornley Bequest to the University of London, to which I
am most grateful. It could not have been written without the patience and
assistance of staff in a number of Italian archives and libraries. I would like
to acknowledge, in particular, the help and kindness of the archivists at the
Biblioteca Comunale in Treviso and the General Archive of the Dominican
Order at Santa Sabina, of the staff at the Archivio Segreto at the Vatican and
the Archivio di Stato in Bologna, and of Valerie Scott and her team at the
British School in Rome (to which in general I am grateful for support and
the kind of cross-sectoral discussions which open unexpected mental doors).
In England, my thanks go to Birkbeck, University of London, for the extra
support of an associate research fellowship, while the London Library has
cheerfully and promptly found things others could not.
John Arnold and Filippo de Vivo have been unfailingly helpful and stimu-
lating, and David d’Avray has been extremely kind and supportive in several
ways. I also owe a special debt to Peter Rycraft of the University of York, who
got me interested in heresy many years ago as an undergraduate and taught
me not to be daunted by sources or language. Finally, my husband Simon
Pepper has been the greatest support possible, listening with endless patience
as I worked out the relationships of inquisitors and their teams, and using his
professional skill to draw the map and illustration of the Treviso seal.
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