Inquisition and Trial Records

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5 - Inquisition and Trial Records

from Part I - Approaches and Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2025

Christine Caldwell Ames

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Richard Flower

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The documentation related to inquisitorial practice included trial transcripts, consultations, sentences, manuals and accounts. But while this documentation was a key ingredient in inquisition’s power, the relationship between these sources and our knowledge of medieval heresy is complex.

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Information: The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy , pp. 97 - 112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108556620.007 [Opens in a new window]

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