The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo

by Thomas F. Mayer

While the Spanish Inquisition has laid the greatest claim to both scholarly attention and the popular imagination, the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542 and a key instrument of papal authority, was more powerful, important, and long-lived. Founded by Paul III and originally aimed to eradicate Protestant heresy, it followed medieval antecedents but went beyond them by becoming a highly articulated centralized organ directly dependent on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244737
• ISBN13: 9780812244731
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"