The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, c.1590–1640, by Thomas F. Mayer
2015; Oxford University Press; Volume: 130; Issue: 547 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/ehr/cev312
ISSN1477-4534
Autores Tópico(s)Early Modern Women Writers
ResumoCompleted not long before the author’s death, this book is a sequel to Thomas Mayer’s The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo (2013; rev. supra , cxxx [2015], 189–90). A third volume, dealing with Galileo’s trial, was also finished by Mayer before the end of his life and has been published as The Roman Inquisition: Trying Galileo (2015). In addition to these works, Mayer had published a sourcebook containing a selection of documents on the Galileo trial ( The Trial of Galileo, 1612–1633 , 2012; rev. ante , cxxix [2014], 453–5). Although intended as a teaching tool and a by-product of the larger project, this latter will be a convenient companion to Trying Galileo . A Papal Bureaucracy and the present work were originally planned as two halves of a single volume intended to serve as an introduction to the Galileo trial. A Papal Bureaucracy dealt admirably with the legal basis, procedure and personnel of the Inquisition. Mayer concentrated in that book on the period from 1588 (when Sixtus V reorganised the Roman congregations and gave the Inquisition precedence over all others) to c .1640. Among his pioneering achievements were his thorough use of the decree registers ( Decreta ) as both judicial and administrative records of the Inquisition, as well as his intelligent reading of practical manuals, such as Francisco Peña’s commentary on the inquisitorial handbook of Nicolaus Eymerich ( Directorium inquisitorum , 1578, and later editions). He also discovered that Urban VIII brought the Roman Inquisition under papal control to an unprecedented degree.
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