Search Results - "Inquisition"

Rumors of indiscretion the University of Missouri "sex questionnaire" scandal in the Jazz Age / by Nelson, Lawrence J., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…"A filthy questionnaire" -- Rumors of sex -- "Jellying" at Mizzou -- Inquisition -- "Tallow candles" -- Up in smoke -- What really happened -- "Facts are stubborn things" -- Denouement.…”
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Teaching other voices women and religion in early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Italian holy women of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Elite women of the high Renaissance -- Women and the Reformation -- Holy women in the age of the Inquisition -- Post-Reformation currents.…”
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The irrational atheist dissecting the unholy trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens / by Day, Vox

Table of Contents: “…A pride of atheists -- Defining science -- The case against science -- The religion of reason -- Sam Tzu and the art of war -- The war delusion -- The end of Sam Harris -- Darwin's Judas -- A Marxian Apostate -- The pragmatic philosopher -- The Robespierre of atheism -- Hitler, the inquisition, the crusades, and human sacrifice -- The red hand of atheism -- Occam's chainsaw -- Master of puppets or game designer? …”
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The irrational atheist dissecting the unholy trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens / by Day, Vox

Table of Contents: “…A pride of atheists -- Defining science -- The case against science -- The religion of reason -- Sam Tzu and the art of war -- The war delusion -- The end of Sam Harris -- Darwin's Judas -- A Marxian Apostate -- The pragmatic philosopher -- The Robespierre of atheism -- Hitler, the inquisition, the crusades, and human sacrifice -- The red hand of atheism -- Occam's chainsaw -- Master of puppets or game designer? …”
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Papal justice subjects and courts in the Papal State, 1500-1750 / by Polverini Fosi, Irene

Table of Contents: “…A complex geography -- Roman tribunals in the early modern period -- The "new" inquisition and the pope's city -- The theater of justice -- Restless nobles -- Collaboration and conflicts : governors, bishops, inquisitors -- Sins and crimes -- Inside the family -- Disciplining the clergy -- Buon governo : between Utopia and reality -- Little fatherlands : local identity and central power -- Rivers of ink : petitions, memorials, letters -- Justice represented, justice recounted.…”
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Papal justice subjects and courts in the Papal State, 1500-1750 / by Polverini Fosi, Irene

Table of Contents: “…A complex geography -- Roman tribunals in the early modern period -- The "new" inquisition and the pope's city -- The theater of justice -- Restless nobles -- Collaboration and conflicts : governors, bishops, inquisitors -- Sins and crimes -- Inside the family -- Disciplining the clergy -- Buon governo : between Utopia and reality -- Little fatherlands : local identity and central power -- Rivers of ink : petitions, memorials, letters -- Justice represented, justice recounted.…”
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Violent delights, violent ends : sex, race, & honor in colonial Cartagena de Indias / by Germeten, Nicole von

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Violent delights, violent ends : sex, race, & honor in colonial Cartagena de Indias / by Germeten, Nicole von

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Curiosity, inquiry, and the geographical imagination by Gade, Daniel W., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Curiosity about curiosity -- Exemplars of the inquisitive spirit -- Shamans and scholars : the questing self as archetype -- Epistemic curiosity and romantic sensibility in American geography -- Anima curiositas : Carl O. …”
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Curiosity, inquiry, and the geographical imagination by Gade, Daniel W., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Curiosity about curiosity -- Exemplars of the inquisitive spirit -- Shamans and scholars : the questing self as archetype -- Epistemic curiosity and romantic sensibility in American geography -- Anima curiositas : Carl O. …”
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Reaping what you sow a comparative examination of torture reform in the United States, France, Argentina, and Israel / by Carey, Henry F., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Torture: the goal of accountability and the world of impunity -- United States: de jure reform with torture lite and rendition -- Israel: soft compliance with judicial oversight of torture-lite -- France: supranational supervision but limited memory battles and accountability -- Argentina: the only case with prosecutions, reparations, and museums -- Spanish inquisition or millennium bombing plot: the value of torture as actionable intelligence, confession, obedience, intimidation, or deterrence? …”
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Reaping what you sow a comparative examination of torture reform in the United States, France, Argentina, and Israel / by Carey, Henry F., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Torture: the goal of accountability and the world of impunity -- United States: de jure reform with torture lite and rendition -- Israel: soft compliance with judicial oversight of torture-lite -- France: supranational supervision but limited memory battles and accountability -- Argentina: the only case with prosecutions, reparations, and museums -- Spanish inquisition or millennium bombing plot: the value of torture as actionable intelligence, confession, obedience, intimidation, or deterrence? …”
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Homosexuality & civilization by Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009

Table of Contents: “…Early Greece: 776-480 BCE -- Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE -- Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE -- Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE -- Christians and pagans: 1-565 CE -- Darkness descends: 476-1049 -- Medieval world: 1050-1321 -- Imperial China: 500 BCE-1849 -- Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609 -- Spain and the Inquisition: 1497-1700 -- France from Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715 -- England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702 -- Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868 -- Patterns of persecution: 1700-1730 -- Sapphic lovers: 1700-1793 -- The Enlightenment: 1730-1810.…”
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Homosexuality & civilization by Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009

Table of Contents: “…Early Greece: 776-480 BCE -- Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE -- Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE -- Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE -- Christians and pagans: 1-565 CE -- Darkness descends: 476-1049 -- Medieval world: 1050-1321 -- Imperial China: 500 BCE-1849 -- Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609 -- Spain and the Inquisition: 1497-1700 -- France from Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715 -- England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702 -- Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868 -- Patterns of persecution: 1700-1730 -- Sapphic lovers: 1700-1793 -- The Enlightenment: 1730-1810.…”
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Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / by Van Engen, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history -- Converts in the Middle ages -- Conversion as a medieval form of life -- Converts in the Low Countries -- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels -- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits -- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries -- The Low Countries -- Households of devout women -- Societies of devout men -- Modern-day conversion -- Suspicion and inquisition -- Suspicion of devout practices -- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s -- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes -- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics -- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401 -- From converts to communities : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons -- Tertiaries "living the common life" -- Sisters of the common life -- Brothers of the common life -- Schoolboys -- Windesheim canons and canonesses -- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries -- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony -- Living together without personal property -- House customs and personal exercises -- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community -- Labor : living from the work of their own hands -- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse -- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny -- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle -- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance -- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative -- Institutionalizing under scrutiny -- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion" -- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect" -- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) -- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion -- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue -- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue -- Exhortation in public and correction in private -- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof -- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace -- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century -- The question of an afterlife.…”
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Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / by Van Engen, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history -- Converts in the Middle ages -- Conversion as a medieval form of life -- Converts in the Low Countries -- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels -- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits -- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries -- The Low Countries -- Households of devout women -- Societies of devout men -- Modern-day conversion -- Suspicion and inquisition -- Suspicion of devout practices -- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s -- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes -- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics -- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401 -- From converts to communities : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons -- Tertiaries "living the common life" -- Sisters of the common life -- Brothers of the common life -- Schoolboys -- Windesheim canons and canonesses -- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries -- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony -- Living together without personal property -- House customs and personal exercises -- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community -- Labor : living from the work of their own hands -- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse -- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny -- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle -- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance -- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative -- Institutionalizing under scrutiny -- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion" -- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect" -- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) -- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion -- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue -- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue -- Exhortation in public and correction in private -- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof -- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace -- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century -- The question of an afterlife.…”
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Marginal voices

Table of Contents: “…Kaplan -- The inception of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) and its impact in medieval and golden age Spain / Gregory B. Kaplan -- Inquisition and the creation of the other / Ana Benito -- Conflicted identity and colonial adaptation in Petrus Alfonsi's dialogus contra judaeos and disciplina clericalis / David A. …”
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The art of veiled speech : self-censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes / by Baltussen, Han, Davis, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Compulsory freedom : literature in Trajan's Rome / John Penwill -- Christian correspondences : the secrets of letter-writers and letter-bearers / Pauline Allen -- "Silence Is also annulment" : veiled and unveiled speech in seventh-century martyr commemorations / Bronwen Neil -- "Dixit quod nunquam vidit hereticos" : dissimulation and self-censorship in thirteenth-century Inquisitorial testimonies / Megan Cassidy-Welch -- Inquisition, art, and self-censorship in the early modern Spanish church, 1563-1834 / François Soyer -- Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship / Jonathan Parkin.…”
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Marginal voices

Table of Contents: “…Kaplan -- The inception of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) and its impact in medieval and golden age Spain / Gregory B. Kaplan -- Inquisition and the creation of the other / Ana Benito -- Conflicted identity and colonial adaptation in Petrus Alfonsi's dialogus contra judaeos and disciplina clericalis / David A. …”
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The art of veiled speech : self-censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes / by Baltussen, Han, Davis, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Compulsory freedom : literature in Trajan's Rome / John Penwill -- Christian correspondences : the secrets of letter-writers and letter-bearers / Pauline Allen -- "Silence Is also annulment" : veiled and unveiled speech in seventh-century martyr commemorations / Bronwen Neil -- "Dixit quod nunquam vidit hereticos" : dissimulation and self-censorship in thirteenth-century Inquisitorial testimonies / Megan Cassidy-Welch -- Inquisition, art, and self-censorship in the early modern Spanish church, 1563-1834 / François Soyer -- Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship / Jonathan Parkin.…”
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