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Summary
The Inquisition conjures Gothic images of cloaked figures and barbarous torture chambers. So enmeshed is this view of the Inquisition in popular culture that such scenes play out even in comedies, but is this a fair portrayal? How was the Inquisition perceived in its own time? Professor Madden deliv... Full description
- Lecture 1. The organization of the Catholic Church
- Lecture 2. Heresy and orthodoxy
- Lecture 3. Roman law and the Church
- Lecture 4. Birth of the Medieval Inquisition
- Lecture 5. Medieval heresies
- Lecture 6. Centralizing the Medieval Inquisition
- Lecture 7. The working of the Medieval Inquisition
- Lecture 8. Birth of the Spanish Inquisition
- Lecture 9. "Poisonous, offensive, misleading": the new heresies of the Protestant Reformation
- Lecture 10. The Spanish Inquisition in its maturity
- Lecture 11. The Roman Inquisition
- Lecture 12. Crafting the myth of the Inquisition
- Lecture 13. The Inquisition and Enlightenment
- Lecture 14. The Inquisition in popular culture.