Talk:Roman Inquisition

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Is there a reason not to combine Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and this article? Are they actually "different" offices, or has merely the name and possibly the focus changed? My Catholic history is somewhat lacking, and I'm not sure which would become the actual article title. -- nae'blis (talk) 19:04, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Wonderful Film for Historic Reference
Film with numerous historian references:

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 * John Dowling's The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time is a mid 19th century source (1845) that reflects a prejudice of that era, e.g. the chapter quoted above is titled "Popery drunk with the blood of the saints".
 * The Roman Inquisition was a court with civil and canon law jurisprudence which did include a legal representative for the accused but the accused could be tortured to extract a confession in some cases. The authors mentioned above:
 * Coulton (1929) The inquisition
 * Henry (1887) A history of the Inquisition of the middle ages
 * Maycock (1926) [1917] The Inquisition from its establishment to the great schism: an introductory study
 * Scott (1826–1832) The history of the church of Christ: intended as a continuation of the work of Joseph Milner and Isaac Milner
 * Turberville (1920) Medieval heresy & the inquisition
 * Vancandard (1900) The Inquisition: a critical and historical study of the coercive power of the church
 * are all quite old and may not reflect modern scholarly works that started after the 1998 opening of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith archives to researchers. –BoBoMisiu (talk) 16:18, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Polish version
The Polish version of this subject has won an award. It is big - almost 400 references and lots of illustrations. While the machine translation is usually clear, it is often clumsy. It will take a lot of effort to produce a polished (pun) translation.104.173.68.20 (talk) 18:53, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The Polish article is very informative. The is informative but it needs translation by a person – which will take a long time but will be a vast improvement over the existing English article. –BoBoMisiu (talk) 22:21, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I can refine the machine translation, but I cannot provide translation. Sorry. :-)104.173.68.20 (talk) 18:30, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Example problem: "Cardinal Reginald Pole was one of the favorites conclave in 1549, but his chances among others buried accusations of heresy by the cardinals inquisitors." Without further study I cannot be sure whether "his chances" or the "accusations" were buried.104.173.68.20 (talk) 18:50, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I committed myself to help translate another article from English to Polish but am still at the stage of improving/verifying the references.
 * "Cardinal Reginald Pole was a favored [candidate] for the 1549 conclave, but his chances were buried by accusations, including heresy, made [against him] by cardinals' inquisitors." –BoBoMisiu (talk) 00:34, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I am looking for references for the Polish version. My progress has been slow (and may soon stop).  Even ISBNs are hard!  OttoBib.com cannot find all of them.  Google Scholar has been of some help, but verifying all the references will be difficult.  The "appropriate" language for the topic is Italian, which will become quite evident looking for all the less-cited references.  Google Translate modified an author's name; "Fosi" became "Moat" (throughout). :-)104.173.68.20 (talk) 22:12, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ping me and I will find the references slowly. We could create a to collaborate. –BoBoMisiu (talk) 22:20, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Find at Italian partner for real progress. Maybe among the Anglos, maybe among the Poles, maybe among the Latins.  If you create a draft, I will drop my modest effort in.  I do have a Polish friend (her parents came from the old country), but she has a teenager and a retired husband.104.173.68.20 (talk) 22:56, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * a blank draft is at Talk:Roman Inquisition/21-March-2016-draft-translation. –BoBoMisiu (talk) 23:14, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I am working the Bibliography (offline) with some vigor. I will help with references.  Lack of Italian/Latin/Polish is limiting.  I believe that Wikipedia documentation on editing has gotten worse over the years; it is not consistent.104.173.68.20 (talk) 17:27, 25 March 2016 (UTC)