PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York. L.J. SACKVILLE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of York. PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York. L.J. SACKVILLE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of York. Paweł Kras is Associate Professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in Lublin; his main area of study is the systems of the Inquisition in Medieval Europe. REIMA VÄLIMÄKI is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Turku.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPeter Biller and L. J. SackvillePart I: Medieval1. Inquisitorial identity and authority in thirteenth-century exegesis and sermons; Jean Halgrin d'Abbeville, Jacques de Vitry and Humbert of Romans Jessalynn Lea Bird2. Shaping the image of the heretics: The narratio in Gregory IX's lettersAlessandro Sala3. Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accusedJörg Feuchter4. The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit: the 1332 enquiry into the 'Cowled Nuns' of SwidnicaPawel Kras5. Late medieval heresiography and the categorisation of Eastern Christianity Irene Bueno 6. The portrayal of the Waldensian Brethren in the De vita et conversacione (c. 1391-3)Appendix: De vita et conversacione: edition and translation of theWeimar MsReima Välimäki7. Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts: the case of Petrus Zwicker's Cum dormirent homines Adam Poznanski8. Constructing narratives of witchcraft Richard KieckheferPart II: Early Modern9. 'Ut ex vetustis membranis cognosco': Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manualsHarald Bollbuck10. The 'Cathars as Protestant' myth and the formation of heterodox identity in the French Wars of ReligionLuc Racaut11. The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records in Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Doat Mss 21-26 Shelagh Sneddon12. History in the Dominican Convent in Toulouse in 1666 and 1668: Antonin Réginald and Jean de Doat Appendix: Antonin Réginald, Chronicon inquisitorum, edition and translation of excerpts, 1240-1340 Peter Biller13. The Roman Inquisition: between reality and mythMichaela Valente

As a whole, the collection provides a clear view of - and invites readers' reflection on - the shading of truth and untruth in medieval and early modern "knowledge" of heresy and inquisition».

PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York. L.J. SACKVILLE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of York. PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York. L.J. SACKVILLE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of York. Paweł Kras is Associate Professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in Lublin; his main area of study is the systems of the Inquisition in Medieval Europe. REIMA VÄLIMÄKI is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Turku.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPeter Biller and L. J. SackvillePart I: Medieval1. Inquisitorial identity and authority in thirteenth-century exegesis and sermons; Jean Halgrin d'Abbeville, Jacques de Vitry and Humbert of Romans Jessalynn Lea Bird2. Shaping the image of the heretics: The narratio in Gregory IX's lettersAlessandro Sala3. Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accusedJörg Feuchter4. The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit: the 1332 enquiry into the 'Cowled Nuns' of SwidnicaPawel Kras5. Late medieval heresiography and the categorisation of Eastern Christianity Irene Bueno 6. The portrayal of the Waldensian Brethren in the De vita et conversacione (c. 1391-3)Appendix: De vita et conversacione: edition and translation of theWeimar MsReima Välimäki7. Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts: the case of Petrus Zwicker's Cum dormirent homines Adam Poznanski8. Constructing narratives of witchcraft Richard KieckheferPart II: Early Modern9. 'Ut ex vetustis membranis cognosco': Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manualsHarald Bollbuck10. The 'Cathars as Protestant' myth and the formation of heterodox identity in the French Wars of ReligionLuc Racaut11. The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records in Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Doat Mss 21-26 Shelagh Sneddon12. History in the Dominican Convent in Toulouse in 1666 and 1668: Antonin Réginald and Jean de Doat Appendix: Antonin Réginald, Chronicon inquisitorum, edition and translation of excerpts, 1240-1340 Peter Biller13. The Roman Inquisition: between reality and mythMichaela Valente

As a whole, the collection provides a clear view of - and invites readers' reflection on - the shading of truth and untruth in medieval and early modern "knowledge" of heresy and inquisition».

PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York. L.J. SACKVILLE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of York. PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York. L.J. SACKVILLE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of York. Paweł Kras is Associate Professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in Lublin; his main area of study is the systems of the Inquisition in Medieval Europe. REIMA VÄLIMÄKI is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Turku.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPeter Biller and L. J. SackvillePart I: Medieval1. Inquisitorial identity and authority in thirteenth-century exegesis and sermons; Jean Halgrin d'Abbeville, Jacques de Vitry and Humbert of Romans Jessalynn Lea Bird2. Shaping the image of the heretics: The narratio in Gregory IX's lettersAlessandro Sala3. Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accusedJörg Feuchter4. The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit: the 1332 enquiry into the 'Cowled Nuns' of SwidnicaPawel Kras5. Late medieval heresiography and the categorisation of Eastern Christianity Irene Bueno 6. The portrayal of the Waldensian Brethren in the De vita et conversacione (c. 1391-3)Appendix: De vita et conversacione: edition and translation of theWeimar MsReima Välimäki7. Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts: the case of Petrus Zwicker's Cum dormirent homines Adam Poznanski8. Constructing narratives of witchcraft Richard KieckheferPart II: Early Modern9. 'Ut ex vetustis membranis cognosco': Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manualsHarald Bollbuck10. The 'Cathars as Protestant' myth and the formation of heterodox identity in the French Wars of ReligionLuc Racaut11. The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records in Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Doat Mss 21-26 Shelagh Sneddon12. History in the Dominican Convent in Toulouse in 1666 and 1668: Antonin Réginald and Jean de Doat Appendix: Antonin Réginald, Chronicon inquisitorum, edition and translation of excerpts, 1240-1340 Peter Biller13. The Roman Inquisition: between reality and mythMichaela Valente

As a whole, the collection provides a clear view of - and invites readers' reflection on - the shading of truth and untruth in medieval and early modern "knowledge" of heresy and inquisition».