Telling tales : clerics, concubines, and an inquisitor in late medieval Ferrara : a primary source study / Roisin Cossar and Jason Aaron Brown.
| Author/creator | Cossar, Roisin author |
| Other author | Brown, Jason Aaron, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2025] |
| Description | lxv, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | "Telling Tales explores the lived experiences of Christian women, parish clerics, and church officials in Italy during the later Middle Ages through one previously unpublished historical source - a register prepared in 1421/1422 for a Dominican inquisitor in the northern Italian city of Ferrara that includes interrogations about the lives, work, and domestic arrangements of otherwise-obscure women. The book provides both a translation of the source from the original Latin and a critical examination of its content from two distinct analytical perspectives. Cossar and Brown also illuminate the workings of an inquisitorial investigation, with details about how the inquisitor gathered information and worked both with, and against, other local authorities. Telling Tales invites readers to explore the tools of the historian's craft, illustrating how different analytical approaches to the same historical source can yield rich - and sometimes contradictory - conclusions."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Cossar, Roisin. Telling tales. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2025 1487560680 9781487560683 |
| Genre/form | primary sources. |
| Genre/form | Primary sources. |
| Genre/form | Sources. |
| ISBN | 9781487560676 |
| ISBN | 1487560672 (paper) |
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