TY - BOOK ID - 19337732 TI - Righteous persecution : inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages PY - 2009 SN - 0812241339 1322510369 0812201094 9780812241334 PB - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, DB - UniCat KW - Contrôle (Psychologie) KW - Punition KW - Contrôle (Psychologie) KW - Église catholique KW - Christian heresies KW - Control (Psychology) KW - Inquisition KW - Persecution KW - Punishment KW - Questioning KW - Interrogation KW - Socratic method KW - Catechetics KW - Teaching KW - Penalties (Criminal law) KW - Penology KW - Corrections KW - Impunity KW - Retribution KW - Church history KW - Holy Office KW - Autos-da-fé KW - Power (Psychology) KW - Emotions KW - Psychology KW - Senses and sensation KW - History KW - Religious aspects&delete& KW - Christianity KW - Catholic Church KW - Religious aspects KW - Dominicans KW - Black Friars KW - Friars Preachers KW - FF. prêcheurs KW - Frères prêcheurs KW - Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum KW - Preaching Friars KW - Predicadores KW - Orden de Predicadores KW - Frati predicatori KW - Ordo Praedicatorum KW - Dominikanie KW - Zakon Kaznodziejski KW - Prediger-Orden KW - Zakon Ojców Dominikanów KW - Zakon Dominikanów KW - Ordre de saint Dominique KW - Dominicains KW - Order of St. Dominic KW - Order of Preachers KW - Dominikaner KW - Dominicanos KW - Padres Domínicos KW - Dominican Fathers KW - Ordem de São Domingos KW - Ordem de S. Domingos KW - Dominicos KW - Domenicani KW - Ordre des Frères-Prêcheurs KW - Dominicanen KW - Dominican Order KW - Blackfriars KW - Jacobins (Religious order) KW - Ордэн дамініканаў KW - Ordėn daminikanaŭ KW - Dominikanci KW - Доминикански орден KW - Dominikanski orden KW - Orde dels Predicadors KW - Orde de Predicadors KW - O.P. KW - Dominics KW - Orde Dominicà KW - Orde dels Frares Predicadors KW - Orde de Sant Domènec KW - Домініканці KW - Dominikant︠s︡i KW - Ordine dei predicatori KW - Ordine dei Frati predicatori KW - History. KW - Christianity. KW - Catholic Church. KW - Religious aspects. KW - Persécutions KW - Hérésies chrétiennes KW - Histoire KW - Aspect religieux KW - Christianisme KW - Ordre des Prêcheurs KW - Medieval and Renaissance Studies. KW - Religion. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19337732 AB - Righteous Persecution examines the long-controversial involvement of the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, with inquisitions into heresy in medieval Europe. From their origin in the thirteenth century, the Dominicans were devoted to a ministry of preaching, teaching, and pastoral care, to "save souls" particularly tempted by the Christian heresies popular in western Europe. Many persons then, and scholars in our own time, have asked how members of a pastoral order modeled on Christ and the apostles could engage themselves so enthusiastically in the repressive persecution that constituted heresy inquisitions: the arrest, interrogation, torture, punishment, and sometimes execution of those who deviated in belief from Roman Christianity. Drawing on an extraordinarily wide base of ecclesiastical documents, Christine Caldwell Ames recounts how Dominican inquisitors and their supporters crafted and promoted explicitly Christian meanings for their inquisitorial persecution. Inquisitors' conviction that the sin of heresy constituted the graver danger to the Christian soul and to the church at large led to the belief that bringing the individual to repentance-even through the harshest means-was indeed a pious way to carry out their pastoral task. However, the resistance and criticism that inquisition generated in medieval communities also prompted Dominicans to consider further how this new marriage of persecution and holiness was compatible with authoritative Christian texts, exemplars, and traditions. Dominican inquisitors persecuted not despite their faith but rather because of it, as they formed a medieval Christianity that permitted-or demanded-persecution. Righteous Persecution deviates from recent scholarship that has deemphasized religious belief as a motive for inquisition and illuminates a powerful instance of the way Christianity was itself vulnerable in a context of persecution, violence, and intolerance. ER -