Of Inquisitors and Men

Sa？etak The paper deals with the analysis of the inquisition both as an institution and as a form of procedure. The introductory part of the paper analyses the Inqisitional procedure in relation with the three dominant procedural models, defining it as a special type of procedure within the Inquisitorial model. The second part of the paper examines the Inquisition as a historical phenomenon, dealing with the evolution and changes within the Inquisition from the very beginnings and the Episcopal Inquisition to the ultimate, Roman Inquisition, whereas it analyses relevant events, documents and people. The main part of the paper deals with the analysis of the Inquisitional procedures, selecting the procedures before the Episcopal, Papal, Spanish and Roman Inquisition and the Inquisitional witch-trials, which represent a specific procedure within the Inquisition. This part will try to explain the evolution of the procedural rules and present a comparative reflection on them. Before the paper summarises the importance of the Inquisitional procedure for the contemporary law, it presents the analysis of the Inquisition scene from Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose in order to present how the Inquisition functioned in practice