ABSTRACT
This chapter's first two sections present a detailed overview of the people and places involved in each of the investigations, with particular attention to geographies of non-Christian practice. Both sections also draw on non-inquisitorial geographic sources to place witness claims in a comparative context. The second half of the chapter, “Inquisitorial Dialogues,” explains the basics of inquisitorial procedure as a ritual process, and then outlines three basic strategies for interpreting the cacophony of voices in these complex, conflictive documents: comparing questions asked with answers given, reading individual testimonies against one another, and (for an outside perspective) putting inquisitorial records in dialogue with non-inquisitorial sources.
