1626 : a year in the life of the Roman Inquisition / Stefania Tutino.
| Author/creator | Tutino, Stefania author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xi, 435 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- 1626: What's in a Year? -- Micro, Macro, and Everything In-Between: Questions of Scale -- Understanding the Roman Inquisition in Context: Rigidity, Flexibility, and Complexity -- The Structure of this Book -- 1 Facts and Figures -- A Note About Classifications -- At a Glance: Cases and Decisions -- Cases -- Decisions -- 2 Cases: Internal Affairs -- The Roman Inquisition: Institutional Configuration and Procedures -- Inquisitorial Manuals: Setting and Enforcing Standards -- Personnel -- Procedure -- Breaking Free -- 3 Cases: Money -- Usury -- The Financial and Fiscal Structure of the Inquisition -- Administration: Revenues -- Pecuniary Fines and Confiscations: Two Necessary and Controversial Sources of Income -- Money and the Jewish Communities -- Administration: Expenses -- Money and Personnel: The Case of Notaries -- 4 Cases: Sex -- Sollicitatio ad Turpia: Rome versus the Local Tribunals -- Sollicitatio: A Few Examples -- Inquisitors, Bishops, and the Problem of Jurisdiction -- Inquisitors, Confessors, and the Problem of Denunciation -- Polygamy: Sex, Theology, and Mobility -- Attempted Polygamy: Gaming the System? -- Sexual Sins and the Shadow of Heresy -- 5 Cases: Doctrine I -- Doctrinal Errors -- Borderlands, Mobility, and the Danger of Heresy -- Homegrown Doctrinal Errors -- Supernatural Abuses -- Sortilege and Magic Between Heresy and Superstition -- Witchcraft -- Exorcism and Demonic Possession -- Exorcisms in Sorrento: A Long, Complex, and Revealing Story of Faith, Devotion, and Superstition -- 6 Cases: Doctrine II -- Clerical/Spiritual Malpractice: Correcting Badly Behaved Clergy -- Clerical Impostors and Fake Priests -- Books -- Censoring Books in 1626: People and Places -- Censoring Books: Themes -- 7 Cases: Ecclesiology and Politics -- Inquisitors Versus Bishops -- Defending the Authority of the Holy Office -- Politics -- Politics, Religion, and Questions of Jurisdiction: The Case of Domenico Maccarano -- Outspoken Jurists, Secret Deals, and the Holy Office -- Censoring the Book -- Punishing the Printer -- The Arrest and Its Aftermath -- Epilogue -- 8 Cases: Setting and Crossing Boundaries -- Mobile People -- Jews and "Judaizers" -- Special Cases -- 9 Decisions -- Licenses for Prohibited Books -- Spontaneous Appearances and Denunciations -- Pardons, Favors, and Other Requests: Local Needs and Centralized Authority -- Conclusion |
| Abstract | "This book examines all the activities carried out by the Roman Inquisition (including both the Roman and the local tribunals) in the year 1626. Its main argument is that the early seventeenth-century Roman Inquisition was not solely the expression of the most militant and repressive aspects of post-Reformation Catholicism. Rather, to understand the historical role the Holy Office played we need to see its development in terms of the tension between rigidity on the one hand and flexibility and complexity on the other. The mandate of the Holy Office was to defend and impose Catholic doctrine by identifying and punishing deviations: There could be absolutely no room for flexibility when it came to upholding Catholic theological rules. The world that Roman Inquisitors oversaw, by contrast, was characterized by a high degree of complexity. Roman Inquisitors did not ignore such complexity; rather, they acknowledged it, occasionally came to terms with it, and indeed absorbed it in some measure. But to what extent could the Holy Office relax its rigidity before it became unable to fulfill the functions for which it was created in the first place? At what point did an increased complexity hinder, rather than aid, the goal of monitoring and controlling the Catholic world? Having the opportunity to see all the activities of the Holy Office in one entire year makes the centrality of these questions easier to appreciate than if we just focused on a specific and necessarily limited subset of issues. Conversely, the granular analysis of those activities provided in this book gives a concrete sense of the ways in which the tension between flexibility and rigidity manifested."--Publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Tutino, Stefania. 1626. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780197806883 |
| ISBN | 9780197806852 |
| ISBN | 0197806856 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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