'Familia inquisitionis': a study of inquisitors' entourage (13th-14th century).

13世纪和14世纪，意大利和法国的中世纪宗教裁判所留下了许多关于所进行的调查的记录，并启发了编年史家和辩论家来写这个非常特殊的法庭的行为和恶行。然而，关于“家族审讯”的具体资料却很少，这群人在不同程度上帮助审讯官管理法庭的日常事务，管理他们的房屋和监狱，作为专业官员、合作者和间谍支持审讯。官方文件（教宗文件、主教信函、教会法和手册）没有提到它们。狱卒、公证人、仆人、间谍和一些支持者就这样被历史遗忘了。然而，调查来源确实提供了这个“家庭”的一瞥，特别是在费用账簿中。虽然最近的史学关注的是宗教裁判所及其运作环境之间的联系，重新审视和调查了地方层面的政治模式和教会议程之间的关系，但很少有人关注宗教裁判所与其环境之间互动的另一个方面。这项研究的目的是重建调查人员和当地社区之间的合作模式。这不会被看作是一种鲜明的对立（宗教裁判所与当地社区/当局/公共结构），而是一种相互交流。审判官通常是相对本地的，或者对他们所处的地方比较熟悉，在某种程度上是这些团体的一部分。同样，当地社区“利用”宗教裁判所作为收入的来源，解决争端的有力途径，支持的来源。将被调查的方面包括：-这些教会官员的世界在多大程度上依赖公证人提供的专业支持，同时公证人长期受雇于法庭而获得的专业和个人声望方面的优势；历史学家是否可以讨论在法庭管辖的地区对“家族”进行系统管理（特别强调法国和意大利）-存在处理嫌疑犯转变和重新融入正统社会的战略；-管理通过没收获得的财产；-是否存在对通敌者和间谍的支持网络或财政支持；-一般情况下贪污的程度（调查官及其雇员的贪污）。

The 13th and 14th century Medieval Inquisition in Italy and France has left many records about the inquiries undertaken, and inspired chroniclers and polemicists to write about the deeds and misdeeds of this very exceptional tribunal. However, very little specific material has been left on the 'familia inquisitionis', the group of people who, to various extents, helped inquisitors on their day-to-day management of the tribunal, run their houses and their jails, supported enquiries as professional officers, collaborators and spies. Official documentation (papal documents, episcopal letters, canon law and manuals) does not refer to them. Jailers, notaries, servants, spies and several supporters have thus drifted into historical oblivion. Yet, inquisitorial sources do provide glimpses of this 'family', which is accounted for especially in the expenses books.While the most recent historiography has focussed on the connections between the Inquisition tribunal and the milieu within which it operated, re-visiting and investigating the relationship between political patterns and ecclesiological agendas at a local level, very little light has been shed on another aspect of the interaction between inquisitors and their environment.This study will aim at a reconstruction of the patterns of co-operation between inquisitors and local communities. This will be seen not so much as a stark opposition (Inquisition versus local communities/authorities/communal structures), but as a mutual exchange. Inquisitors were often relatively local or familiar to the places where they operated, and to some degree were part of such groupings. Equally, local communities 'used' the Inquisition as a generator of income, a powerful way to solve disputes, a source of support.Among the aspect that will be investigated are: - the extent to which the world of these ecclesiastical officials relied on professional support provided by the notaries, and at the same time the advantages notaries obtained professionally and in terms of personal prestige by being employed by the tribunal over a length of time;- whether or not historians can talk about a systematic management of the 'familia' throughout the areas regulated by the tribunal (with specific emphasis on France and Italy);- the existence of strategies to handle conversion of suspects and their re-integration into the orthodox society;- the management of possessions obtained through confiscation;- the existence of a support network or financial support for the collaborators and spies;- the extent of corruption as a general practice (corruption of both the inquisitors and of their employees).