Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates.
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Inquisition
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Gore | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Inchbald | A Case of Conscience is set in Spain. An only son returns from army service to find his father behaving coldly to him because of a supposed discovery that the young man is not... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Roxburghe Lothian | The novel relates the love between Dante Alighieri
, scholar and poet, and the aristocrat Beatrice Portinari
, and the way her early death inspired his work, particularly the Divina Commedia. The political and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Roxburghe Lothian | RL
sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Owenson's hero here is Hilarion, a Portuguese nobleman turned monk and missionary; her heroine is Luxima, Princess of Cashmire, whose rank also brings her an important Hindu religious function. Hilarion goes to India seeking the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | The second part is devoted to France. MDF
laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism
: slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition
. She identifies... |
| Textual Features | Roxburghe Lothian | Dante and Beatrice, from 1282 to 1290 reflects RL
's deep knowledge of her subject matter, and she fed her research into many digressions on architecture, culture, and society. Her history of the Baptistery of... |
| Textual Features | Mrs F. C. Patrick | In the later stages of the novel, Anthony is in love with Lady Maria, an unrecorded daughter of Mary, Queen of Scots (a plot twist which must ultimately be owed to Sophia Lee
and The... |
| Textual Features | Grace Aguilar | The martyr named in the title is a Spanish Jew named Marie, who refuses to convert despite her love for an English Catholic man, and the further inducements represented by the torture of the Inquisition |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | Greville is a shy young English nobleman, who in the first volume enters high Parisian society and is attracted by French ladies. He then discovers what he takes to be a shameful and terrifying... |
| politics | Mary Ward | A warrant from the Inquisition
for MW
's arrest as a heretic, schismatic, and rebel to the Holy Church |
| Occupation | Katharine Evans | In Malta, an island whose Roman Catholicism
the Quaker women regarded as idolatrous, they were warned by the British Consul that they ran a risk, if they engaged in missionary activity, of arrest by... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Katharine Evans | KE
wrote from her Inquisition
prison in Malta a personal, religious letter to her husband and children in England. She calls it the eleventh month of 1661, which most probably means January 1662, counting from... |
| Literary Setting | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian has been read as an answer to The Monk by Lewis
, a vindication of terror (assaults on the nerves, the strain of threatened but imperfectly perceived danger) against horror (sexual obsession and... |
| Literary Setting | Grace Aguilar | The Fugitive, from the 1845 Book of Beauty, outlines the plight of Portuguese Jews in the mid-eighteenth century under the Inquisition
, through the medium of a love story. It writes somewhat archly... |
Timeline
15 May 1252: Pope Innocent IV, in his bull Ad exstirpanda,...
National or international item
15 May 1252
Pope Innocent IV
, in his bull Ad exstirpanda, authorized the Inquisition
's use of torture as a means of eliciting information and confessions from suspected heretics.
1478: The medieval institution of the Inquisition...
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1478
The medieval institution of the Inquisition was revived as the Spanish Inquisition
at the request of the Spanish royal couple Isabel of Castile
and Ferdinand of Aragon
.
21 July 1542: Pope Paul III revived the medieval inquisition...
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21 July 1542
Pope Paul III
revived the medieval inquisition to counter the threat posed to Roman Catholicism
by the new Protestant thinking of Martin Luther
and John Calvin
.
17 February 1600: Giordano Bruno, a Neapolitan philosopher...
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17 February 1600
Giordano Bruno
, a Neapolitan philosopher and former Dominican friar, was burned by the Inquisition
, apparently less for his support of Copernicus
than for his Plato
nist and Pantheistic thinking.
22 June 1633: A committee of the Holy Office of the Inquisition...
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22 June 1633
A committee of the Holy Office of the Inquisition
passed judgement of heresy on Galileo
's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican (published in February 1632).
8 January 1642: The scientist Galileo died, blind and still...
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8 January 1642
The scientist Galileo
died, blind and still under the ban of the Inquisition
; Isaac Newton
, who inherited his mantle as leading light in the field of science, was born on Christmas Day of...
9 December 1655: Cromwell issued an edict legally permitting...
National or international item
9 December 1655
Cromwell
issued an edict legally permitting Jewish resettlement in England. The Jews had been expelled in 1290, though individuals had now been living in England unofficially for more than a century.
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