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Angels or Demons? Interactions and Borrowings between Folk Traditions, Religion and Demonology in Early Modern Italian Witchcraft Trials

Religions, 2019
In 1638 Caterina di Francesco, from the town of Siena (Tuscany), was accused by the Roman Inquisition of invoking the devil through a spell called “the white angel spell„ or “the spell of the carafe„ (incantesimo della caraffa ...
Debora Moretti
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De cómo España exportó la Inquisición a sus colonias en América

Grafía, 2004
The history of the Inquisition Court spreads throughout many centuries and continnts, collaborating with social and political control handled by conservative sectors linked to the feudal and colonial system.
Fanny Bello Romero
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Philip IV of Spain and the Portuguese Inquisition (1621–1641) [PDF]

, 2016
The historiography of the Iberian Inquisitions has focused on analyzing relations between the Holy Office and the secular authorities in the society in which it operated.
Paiva, José Pedro
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Auto-da-fe in Lwów in 1728 : the Jan Filipowicz trial and Jewish re-conversion to Judaism in the early modern Poland [PDF]

, 2017
This article discusses the question of neophytes’ return to Judaism, especially the case of Jan Filipowicz, who was condemned to death for this crime in 1728 in Lwów.
Kaźmierczyk, Adam
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Dal carnalis concubitus all’heretica pravitate. Sesso, matrimonio ed eresia nel tribunale di Jacques Fournier (1318-1325)

L'Atelier du CRH, 2009
Love, sex, and marriage are recurring themes in inquisition records of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and especially in the register of Jacques Fournier, bishop-inquisitor of Pamiers from 1318 to 1325.
Irene Bueno
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Conflicting Interpretations of Holiness and Heterodoxy in Late Medieval Italy

I Quaderni del MAES
In thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, there are a number of examples of people that local communities perceived as holy, but who ran afoul of inquisitors.  Two of the more lesser-known, but extremely polarizing local saints ― and accused heretics―
Janine Larmon Peterson
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Españoles instruidos por la Constitución

Revista de Derecho Político, 2011
La instrucción pública fue una de las preocupaciones principales de las Cortes gaditanas desde su formación hasta el regreso de Fernando VII. Las Cortes parecen unir Constitución e instrucción como palancas de modernización del país, y buen indicio de ...
Pilar García Trobat
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¿ES EL ANTISEMITISMO UN RACISMO?. A PROPOSITO DE B. NETANYAHU, THE ORIGINS OF THE INQUISITION IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY SPAIN, NEW YORK, RANDOM HOUSE, 1995 [PDF]

, 2009
Taking Benzion Netanyahu’s The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain as the point of departure, this essay analyzes the relationship between the Spanish Inquisition and Jewish diaspora, between anti-semitism and racism.
Levinson, Brett
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Writing the History of the Papacy in the 21st Century

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 376-387, September 2025.
Simone Maghenzani
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Before the Fire Burns: Trials for Superstition, Magic, and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Bologna

Religions
This article investigates the factors that provoked the trial and death sentence of four witches in Bologna in 1559. That is, it aims to elucidate how a witch hunt (albeit a small one) was triggered in a context where demonology was present, but the ...
Guido Dall’Olio
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