Telling Tales: Clerics, Concubines, and an Inquisitor in Late Medieval Ferrara: a Primary Source Study...

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Jason Aaron Brown Roisin Cossar

Telling Tales

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ISBN: 9781487560676

Clerics, Concubines, and an Inquisitor in Late Medieval Ferrara: a Primary Source Study

Jason Aaron Brown, Roisin Cossar

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English

University of Toronto Press
18 March 2026

European history; Medieval history; History of religion; Christian Churches & denominations

Telling Tales explores the lived experiences of Christian women, parish clerics, and church officials in Italy during the later Middle Ages through one previously unpublished historical source

a register prepared in 1421/1422 for a Dominican inquisitor in the northern Italian city of Ferrara that includes interrogations about the lives, work, and domestic arrangements of otherwise-obscure women.

The book provides both a translation of the source from the original Latin and a critical examination of its content from two distinct analytical perspectives. Cossar and Brown also illuminate the workings of an inquisitorial investigation, with details about how the inquisitor gathered information and worked both with, and against, other local authorities.

Telling Tales invites readers to explore the tools of the historian's craft, illustrating how different analytical approaches to the same historical source can yield rich

and sometimes contradictory

conclusions.

By: Jason Aaron Brown, Roisin Cossar
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781487560676
ISBN 10: 1487560672
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 18 March 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jason Aaron Brown is a research fellow at St Paul's College, University of Manitoba. Roisin Cossar is a professor of history at the University of Manitoba.