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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Roman Inquisition"”.
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Giordano Bruno and the history of science
… reason for Bruno’s execution at the hands of the Roman Inquisition in 1600. One school of thought, the “martyr to science” interpretation, insists that Bruno died as the direct result of his advocacy of Copernicanism. The opposing school rejects this assessment and names a variety of unorthodox …
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Material Prayers: The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions
… by ecclesiastical authorities. Sermons, Inquisition trial records, and other archival documents have been consulted to further illuminate the material evidence. The first part of the thesis, ‘On the Body’, considers the how devotees came into personal contact with texts by wearing prayers …