This course will examine some of the institutionalized ways in which marginalized and/or non-conforming individuals and groups have come to be targeted by processes of categorization, control, censorship, and punishment, among other types of persecution. Our focus will primarily centre on inquisitions, legal proscriptions, and indices of prohibited books that were imposed in regions subjected to Roman Catholic Church authority from the fall of the old (western) Roman empire to the rise of new forms of (global) imperialism in the modern era. 3 credit hours. Prerequisite: none.
- Teacher: Robin Vose