Manifestazioni di dissenso alla repressione del nonconformismo religioso

The contribution deals with a form of dissent up to now studied in a rather sporadic manner, that is to say that against the repression of medieval religious otherness. If the most noted episodes of a similar dynamic enter into the category of a sometimes violent opposition coming from society and outside the ecclesiastical institutions – one thinks to some revolts, even mass ones, against the inquisitors – a noticeable dissent whose manifestation emerges from inside the same religious orders can be seen. Looking into detail, it seems that the finality of repressive action was never put into discussion as it was aimed at upholding the faith, understood as a common good, from the moment that the reactions rather tend to concentrate themselves on the behaviour of the office holders of the tribunal and on the abuse of their dilatory prerogatives connected to the exercise of their functions.