Religious Sensibilities in Early Modern Europe: Examples from the Records of the Holy Penitentiary

progressively widened the scope of their research, seeking evidence for problems newly identified, or viewed from fresh perspectives. Supplementing the older printed texts, on which most scholars have relied in the past, are a cluster of new, and largely unpublished, sources. These include: ordination lists; petitions for benefices; diocesan records (visitations, synodal statutes); account books of parish and collegiate churches, monasteries and nunneries; confraternity records; canonization proceedings; testaments; and records of ecclesiastical courts. These latter have been among the least explored sources in the field. Few records of diocesan courts have survived in