Preservation of archives could also help inquisitors ' spot weak points in a mendacious confession ' (p. 144).
Nevertheless, burning remained a crucial part of inquisition strategy, in that even with relatively few victims it allowed inquisitors to intimidate a community.
In fact, the inquisitors may well have arrived at the penitential virtues of imprisonment on their own.
Natural revulsion at the earliest inquisitors has also caused difficulties.
The inquisitors, like those who were later involved in his canonization, did not doubt that he really flew.
Recent events had also had an effect on the inquisitors.
Jaffary traces the methods used by inquisitors to determine the role of the devil in the behaviour of the accused.
Circulation and eclecticism are the dominant themes, although obviously the dialogue between priest and inquisitor does uncover differing and conflicting assumptions on what was acceptable.
