Naslov
Unacceptable Social Behaviour or False Accusations: Croats in the Investigations of the Venetian Inquisition

Autori
Čoralić, Lovorka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
At the Edge of the Law: Socially Unacceptable and Illegal Behaviour in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Urednik/ci
Miljan, Suzana ; Jaritz, Gerhard

Izdavač
Medium Aevum Quotidianum

Grad
Krems an der Donau

Godina
2012

Raspon stranica
82-97

ISBN
978-3-901094-30-X

Ključne riječi
Venice, Republic of Venice, Dalmatia, inquisition, ecclesiastical history, Early Modern Age

Sažetak
The central theme of this work is directed towards the trials of Venetian Inquisition in which the main protagonists (the defendants) were the Croats from the wider area of East Adriatic coast during the period of the Early Modern Age. In the introductory part of the article, general data regarding the history of Venetian Inquisition and the types of its trials has been given, to be followed, through several chapters, by an analysis of trials conducted against the Croats. These trials are divided in four types: conversion to Islam, Protestantism, use of magic, that is popular superstition, and conduct considered improper of the clergymen (the secular and regular priests and other members of religious orders). The weight of the work is on the description of the investigating process, in the first place on the wider social conditions within which may be found the motivation, that is justification, for initiating the inquest. The analysis of the examples presented here shows that the motives for charging complaints very frequently laid within the conflicts and intolerance within small local communities and that the legal basis for punishing the accused rested on weak and badly argued grounds.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
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