The Renaissance Conference was held at the Newberry Library for many years prior to the founding of the Center for Renaissance Studies in 1979.

Organized by Julius Kirshner, University of Chicago.

Welcome

Richard Brown, Newberry Library

Session 1

The Repression of Heresy in Late Medieval Toulouse
John Mundy, Columbia University

The Medieval Inquisition and Henry Charles Lea
Patricia Jobe, University of Chicago

Session 2

Imprisonment for Serious Crime in the Ancien Régime
John Langbein, University of Chicago

Commentator
Raoul van Caenegem, University of Ghent

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