Italy

Question 1

what were the beliefs in witches

Answer 1

Belief in women such as sorceress Celestina who engaged in love magic, using children’s flesh to make their spell but didn’t have belief in the sabbat

Question 2

what were the reasons for the lack of demonic witch beliefs in Italy

Answer 2

son for absence could have something to do with Nicholas Eymeric’s Directorium 1376 – inquisitorial manual described withcraft as a form of heresy but nothing about the sabbat

Question 3

how centralised was Italy

Answer 3

Various inquisitorial tribunals operating outside the papal states were not subjected to the high levels of decentralised control.
Some states operated with a certain level of independent from the Congregation of the Holy Office in Rome.
Nevertheless, the Roman Inquisition achieved some success in its efforts to standardise procedure and sentencing through italy

Question 4

what judicial control did Italy have

Answer 4

strict adherence of the inquisition in each country to fairly strict procedural rules

Question 5

what provisions did the legal counsel make

Answer 5

Provisions made for legal counsel – gave the defendant a copy of the charges and evidence against them, little weight to the testimony of a suspected with against her alleged accomplices