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Současné bádání o středověké inkvizici : stav, směřování, perspektivy
| Title in English | Contemporary research on the Medieval inquisition : state, directions, perspectives |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Český časopis historický |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | medieval inquisition; inquisitio heretice pravitatis; state of research; perspectives; trial records; source criticism; theories of discourse; distribution of power |
| Description | This paper focuses on the state of research in the medieval inquisition. After a brief sketch of the history of research, it highlights and summarizes seven main areas of development in the contemporary study of the medieval inquisition: (1) new editions of sources, (2) new developments in source criticism of inquisitional records, (3) interest in the worlds and motivations of the inquisitors, (4) a significant revision of the traditional concept of “the Inquisition” as an organization or network of tribunals, (5) putting of medieval inquisitio heretice pravitatis into the context of development of trial procedures in the 12th-13th centuries, (6) the conception of inquisition as discourse, inspired by theories of discourse, and (7) a re-description of power relations between the inquisitor and the deponent not in terms of unidirectional exercise of power but rather in terms of dialogue, even if unbalanced, and of a negotiating about the space for agency. In the end, the author summarizes some of the perspectives and tasks in the research in medieval inquisitional records. |
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