trials (heresy)

Examines key issues in the trial of seventeenth-century astronomer Galileo, accused of heresy by the Inquisition for advocating the Copernican, or sun-centered, view of the universe, and looks at the reasons why the trial remains memorable.

Recounts Anne Hutchinson's struggle with the Puritan Church over its rigid theocratic control of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, her trial for heresy and sedition, and banishment from the colony.