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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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Tolérer ce que l’on ne peut accepter. Blasphème et athéisme dans la pratique judiciaire de l'Inquisition romaine au xviie siècle

Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2012
This contribution deals with the social role of blasphemy and the religious debate on it in the early modern Republic of Venice. It sheds light on what was the theological background for ecclesiastical condemnation and which were the State’s claims for ...
Federico Barbierato
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Inquisition, Repression, and Ridicule [PDF]

, 1974
Does the scholarly community have an obligation to extend a respectable forum for the open discussion of repugnant ...
Hibbs, Albert R.
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Dediche tortuose. La Geometria morale di Vincenzo Viviani e gli imbarazzi dell’eredità galileiana

Noctua, 2019
This study of the history and contents of a hitherto unedited work on geometry by Vincenzo Viviani seeks to present a picture of the scientific environment in Italy in the second half of the 17th century, with particular emphasis on Tuscany and the ...
Sara Bonechi
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Bigamie und Inquisition in Italien, 1600 – 1750

, 2006
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Siebenhüner, Kim
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Church and magic as rival systems in Early Modern Europe

Studia Humanitatis, 2019
The article analyses the system of relationship between the Catholic Church and occultists in Early Modern Europe. Particular attention is paid to the reconstruction of the worldview of historical actors. The author pays attention on the folk practice of
Chernomorsky Arseny Vladimiovich
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Wikipedia als Heilige Inquisition

, 2009
http://knol.google.com/k/claes-johnson/wikipedia-inquisition/yvfu3xg7d7wt ...
Klaus Graf
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The Inquisition and Intolerance

, 2002
: The early Church also felt obliged to guard and preserve the faith but was content to proscribe heterodox doctrines or practices through condemnations of bishops and councils, and, on occasion, excommunicate persons or communities till they retracted ...
D'Lima, Errol
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Goa la périlleuse. L’Inde portugaise selon les voyageurs français du xviie siècle

Viatica
This article examines the way French travelers of the 17th century witnessed the difficulties they regularly encountered in the Portuguese Indies, particularly in Goa.
Frédéric Tinguely
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Un tribunal méconnu et honni. Les savoirs géographiques sur l’Inquisition dans la France d’Ancien Régime

Viatica
This article examines the construction of a geographical knowledge about the Inquisition in specialized dictionaries in French in the 18th century. In order to gather first-hand information, compilers looked at the accounts of travellers who had visited ...
François Lavie
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