Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I: IN THE GARDEN
Chapter 1: The Wolves and the Sheep
Chapter 2: Holy Inquisitors
Chapter 3: The Burning Torch
PART II: INQUISITION AS DIVINE DISCIPLINE
Chapter 4: Souls and Bodies
Chapter 5: The Deserved Punishment
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

Inquisitors from the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, crafted and promoted Christian meanings for their persecution of heresy in medieval Europe. With a mixture of existing religious beliefs, new interpretations, and responses to criticism, Dominicans shaped a medieval Christianity that permitted—or demanded—inquisitorial repression.

About the Author

Christine Caldwell Ames teaches history at the University of South Carolina.

Reviews

"I know of no other book that so systematically reviews the question of how Dominicans themselves thought about the relationship of interrogation and torture, truth and pain, persecution and divinity. There are few topics more vital--especially at present--than a study into the relationship of religion and violence. Righteous Persecution is an important and lasting contribution to scholarship."--Mark Gregory Pegg, Washington University