Lessons in pluralism from a 17th-century African town | Aeon Essays
Crispina Peres, a powerful 17th-century Cacheu trader of mixed African-European heritage, was prosecuted by the Inquisition for blending African healing practices with Catholicism.
A popular medieval religious movement, Catharism, arose amid church corruption, social crisis, and climate disaster and elicited brutal repression that led to the Inquisition.
Did the Inquisition Allow Heresy to Endure? Lessons from the 1335 Trial in Giaveno - Medievalists.net
Inquisitorial tribunals in the High Middle Ages were fragmented and inconsistent, enabling ascetic groups like the Waldensians to survive by adapting and exploiting systemic weaknesses.