The Database Inquisition in Action by Francisco Malta Romeiras is now online
22 June 2022
Francisco Malta Romeiras' Inquisition in Action website is finally online.
This data base is the result of Francisco Malta Romeiras' work, which focuses on the Portuguese Inquisition and the censorship of science books (see Francisco Malta Romeiras, “Putting the Indices into Practice: Censoring Science in Early Modern Portugal,” Annals of Science 77 (2020): 71–95).
The launch of this website took place on June 20, at 6 pm at FCUL, and was attended by Giuseppe Marcocci (University of Oxford), José Pedro Paiva (University of Coimbra) and Henrique Leitão.
“Inquisition in Action is a valuable new portal for ordering and making visible the material artifacts of censorship in early modern Portugal and its empire.”
Hannah Marcus, Harvard University
Author of Forbidden Knowledge. Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020).
“Inquisition in Action makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Catholic censorship of scientific texts in the early modern period. It allows historians to examine not only the manner in which Portuguese inquisitors implemented Indices of Forbidden Books, but also to consider the physical practice of censorship.”
Neil Tarrant, University of Leeds
Author of Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022)
