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A detailed legal and institutional study of the tribunals' procedures and sanctions, concentrating on the use of torture, evidentiary rules, trial stages, and sentencing. It compares inquisitorial practice with contemporary secular and Roman courts, explains formal safeguards and limitations surrounding coercion, and describes methods, administration, frequency, and the requirement that coerced confessions be ratified while noting alternatives such as prolonged imprisonment. The narrative traces procedural development—accusation, defence counsel, expert theologians, publication of evidence, recusations, examinations including the consulta de fe, delays, and the prosecution of the dead or absent—and closes with treatment of punishments and the forms of sentence.
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