Criminal-Inquisitorial Trials in English Church Courts: From the Middle Ages to the Reformation

by Henry Ansgar Kelly

After inquisitorial procedure was introduced at the Fourth Lateran Council in Rome in 1215 (the same year as England's first Magna Carta), virtually all court trials initiated by bishops and their subordinates were inquisitions. That meant that accusers were no longer needed. Rather, the judges themselves leveled charges against persons when they were publicly suspected of specific offenses?like fornication, or witchcraft, or simony. Secret crimes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813237378
• ISBN13: 9780813237374
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.3"