Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles
played by inquisition in medieval England. Inquisition in medieval
and early modern England has typically been the subject of
historical rather than cultural investigation, and focussed on
heresy. Here, however, inquisition is revealed as playing a broader
role in medievalEnglish culture, not only in relation to sanctions
like excommunication, penance and confession, but also in the
fields of exemplarity, rhetoric and poetry. Beyond its specific
legal and pastoral applications, inquisitio was a dialogic mode of
inquiry, a means of discerning, producing or rewriting truth, and
an often adversarial form of invention and literary authority. The
essays in this volume cover such topics as the theory and practice
ofcanon law, heresy and its prosecution, Middle English pastoralia,
political writing and romance. As a result, the collection
redefines the nature of inquisition's role within both medieval law
and culture, and demonstrates the extent to which it penetrated the
late-medieval consciousness, shaping public fame and private
selves, sexuality and gender, rhetoric, and literature. Mary C.
Flannery is a lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne;
Katie L. Walter is a lecturer in English at the University of
Sussex. Contributors: Mary C. Flannery, Katie L. Walter, Henry
Ansgar Kelly, Edwin Craun, Ian Forrest, Diane Vincent, Jenny Lee,
James Wade, Genelle Gertz, Ruth Ahnert, Emily Steiner
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