Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Note on the Text xiii
7. Introduction: Re-Orienting the History of Catholic Confessional Control 1
8. Part I: The Inquisition and the Christian East: General Perspectives
9. 1. Late Medieval Inquisitors and the Framing of Eastern Christianity: Procedures, Consultations and Treatises 31
10. 2. The Roman Holy Office and the Christian East: Overview of Sources and New Research Perspectives 56
11. 3. Ancient Controversies and Modern Challenges: The Roman Inquisition and the Eastern Christians in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 89
12. Part II: The Ritual and Disciplinary Control of Greeks in Italy
13. 4. Greeks as Targets and Agents of the Inquisitions in Italy, 1541–64 131
14. 5. Inquisitorial Trial on the Liturgical Books Used by the Greek Communities in Sicily (1624–27): A Study on the Origins of the Congregatio particularis super emendatione euchologii Graecorum 153
15. 6. The Inconsistent Observer: The Roman Inquisition and the Greek Community of Paomia (Corsica, Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries) 195
16. Part III: Questioning Sacraments and Religious Ceremonies in Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Balkans
17. 7 In the Name of the Holy Spirit(s): Contested Baptisms between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox in Seventeenth-Century Northern Ottoman Europe 223
18. 8. Matrimonial Discipline Facing the Challenges of Uniatism: The Case of the Ruthenian Church (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries) 247
19. 9. Animal Sacrifice and ‘Schismatic’ Celebrations among Bulgarian Paulicians (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries) 268
20. Part IV: The Inquisition Overseas: Exercising Authority in an Extra-European Context
21. 10 The Roman Inquisition and the Latin Christians of Constantinople: Commissaries of the Holy Office in the Ottoman Capital, 1558–69 299
22. 11. Early Modern Christians of St Thomas at Inquisitorial Crossroads 329
23. Part V: Inquisitors, Brokers and Consultants: The Role of the Individual in the Bureaucracy of the Holy Office
24. 12 Toward the Union of Brest: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli between the Roman Inquisition, the Ruthenian-Orthodox and the Venetian Greek-Orthodox 365
25. 13. De rebus ad Maronitas et Graecos spectantibus. The Eastern Catholic Churches in Lambertini’s Dossiers: A Consultor of the Holy Office – between Inquisitorial Norms and Decrees of the Oriental Synods 389
26. Index 408