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Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Overture -- York -- The theme -- The chapters -- Post-medieval: the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Coda -- PART I: Medieval -- 1 - Inquisitorial identity and authority in thirteenth-century exegesis and sermons -- Sources and discourses: sermons on ideal preachers and good and bad shepherds -- Discernment of shepherds, sheep, dogs, and wolves -- Detection and rehabilitation: the image of the heretic as leper -- Masters and mendicants: sermons and inquests against heresy -- 2 - Shaping the image of the heretics: The narratio in Gregory IX's letters -- 3 - Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accused -- 1. Nepos and his part in the Liber fugitivus: redactor, not author -- 2. Biographical information in Nepos's redaction of the Liber fugitivus -- 3. Nepos as judge of the Toulousan Albigeois -- 4. Nepos of Montauban and his home town -- 5. Nepos as donatus of the abbey of St Théodard -- 6. Nepos as inquisitor's assistant and scribe in the 1240s -- 7. A sketch of Nepos's life -- 8. Discussion of heretics and heresy in Nepos's version of the Liber fugitivus -- 4 - The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit -- The 1332 inquisitorial records and past research -- The 'cowled nuns' of Świdnica -- John of Schwenkenfeld and his 1332 investigation -- Conclusion -- 5 - Late medieval heresiography and the categorisation of Eastern Christianity -- Anti-heresy writing and the reception of Greeks and Armenians -- Conclusions -- 6 - The portrayal of the Waldensian Brethren in the De vita et conversacione -- Manuscripts and versions -- The slippery slope from holy men to heresiarchs -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 7 - Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts -- 8 - Constructing narratives of witchcraft.

PART II: Early Modern -- 9 - Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manuals -- 1. The formation of a Lutheran concept of history -- 2. Matthias Flacius and his concept of truth witnesses -- 3. Networking: the collection of inquisition manuals and registers -- 4. Inquisition records and manuals in the library of Flacius: an overview -- 5. Techniques and aims of the use of inquisition protocols and manuals by Flacius -- Conclusion -- 10 - The 'Cathars as Protestant' myth and the formation of heterodox identity -- 11 - The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records -- 12 - History in the Dominican Convent in Toulouse in 1666 and 1668 -- i. The medieval archive -- ii. Mid-seventeenth century: the convent -- iii. 1666: Antonin Réginald's Chronicon Inquisitorum -- iv. 1668: Jean de Doat's visit -- Appendix -- 13 - The Roman Inquisition: between reality and myth -- Index -- Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages.

Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.