SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roman Inquisition, Occultation, Penicillin

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

The main goal was to prevent heresy (de ance against the church) and was used as a way to ensure that everyone was keeping with the roman. Also went after jews, homosexuals, or anyone seen as deviant. The roman catholic inquisition still exists today as an of ce (by another name) Pope benedict was the chief inquisitor of the church before becoming the. Research/ hunts heretic offences, including (but rarely) the inexplicably supernatural (e. g. possessions) Reformation: marks the end of the witch hunting craze. There was a sense that you had to be able to prove fact in an objective and reproducible way. Contradicted the boll put out by the pope at the beginning of the inquisition proclaiming the existence of witches and their evil plans. This shift occurred when the elite became scientists. Occurred around the same time as the black plague/bubonic plague.