ABSTRACT
Let us now look more closely at the mechanics of monetary circulation, solidity and financial compensation set in place within the Italian inquisitorial network from the 1500s through the 1600s. However much they present themselves as minute transactions, these incessant, capillary, monetary flows linking the centre to the periphery of the inquisitorial system – or, moving within the network of the courts of faith alone, eluding Rome – had the fundamental objective of guaranteeing the efficient and uniform operation of the Holy Court within the whole society and the multiplicity of its territorial components. The circular and overlapping financial techniques of the local inquisitors were, as we shall see, especially important in the Kingdom of Naples, where the justice of faith was organized in a manner which did not lend itself readily to the economic conduct discussed in Chapter 1.
