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18 April, 2011
- The next ESG will take place on Wednesday 4th May, 2011,
18.00-20.00, GB 6/137. For further details, please see the ESG website.
5 June 2010
Imagining Inquisition in Medieval England
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Saturday, 5th June 2010, Queen Mary College, University of London
Inquisitio (‘inquiry’, ‘investigation’) in the later medieval period was one means of investigating crime in general and heresy in particular. Scholarship on medieval inquisition has done much to illuminate its role in continental Europe and, more recently, in England, but the results of this research have not had the same impact on medieval studies that the study of confession has had. Our aim is to investigate the role of inquisitio in the medieval English imagination, not only by exploring inquisition’s specific legal and pastoral applications, but by examining its more general role as a dialogic mode of inquiry, a means of discerning truth, and a form of invention and literary authority. This workshop, which is part of a research project on inquisition and confession in medieval England, is an opportunity to reconsider the standard history and role of inquisitio in medieval England not merely as part of a developing ‘Inquisition’ but as part of a broader development in the medieval English consciousness.
Please click here for the workshop programme online!
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