The Inquisitor at the Table

Food and Identity in the Mediterranean Tribunals of the Roman Inquisition

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3146978
AutoresEric R Dursteler (0000-0003-2420-6161, Brigham Young University, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume14
Fascículo5
Páginas619
Data de publicação2023-05-06
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel14050619
OpenAlexW4375862505
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas41

This article explores the Roman Inquisition's interest in the dietary practices of suspected heretics throughout the Roman Catholic Mediterranean. In an era marked by rampant religious nomadism and a deep uncertainty about assaying and fixing confessional identity, dietary practices were often used to determine religious belonging. For the Roman Inquisition, non-conforming diets served as a clue to potentially more serious spiritual infractions. In the early modern Mediterranean, what one ate was considered a sign of what one believed

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Confessional · Mediterranean climate · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Classics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies