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James Given's Inquisition and Medieval Society (Cornell, 1997) has an elaborate discussion of how the inquisitors' possession of a filing and retrieval system served as a coercive technology against the accused. Lea's 3 volume history of the inquisition contains several passages in which he illustrates how inquisitors could induce confessions by reading out documents to illiterate accuseds, or by pretending to. Dale Hample %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%