Category: History - European
As the twelfth century drew to a close, the Church was approaching a crisis in its career. The vicissitudes of a hundred and fifty years, skilfully improved, had rendered it the mistress of Christendom. History records no such triumph of intellect over brute strength as that w...
The Church admitted that it had brought upon itself the dangers which threatened it--that the alarming progress of heresy was caused and fostered by clerical negligence and corr...
28. CHAPTER XIV.Like confiscation, the death-penalty was a matter with which the Inquisition had theoretically no concern. It exhausted every effort to bring the heretic back to the bosom of th...
29. iv. My references to the poem which passes under the name of Guillem de[118] Vaissette, Éd. Privat, VIII. 557.--Hist. du Comte de Toulouse (Vaissette, III. Pr. 3, 4).--Guill. de Pod. Laurent. c. 9.--Pet. Sarnens. c. 9.--Rob. Autissiodor. ann. 1209....
21. CHAPTER VII.The gradual organization of the Inquisition was simply a process of evolution arising from the mutual reaction of the social forces which we have described. The Albigensian Crus...
20. CHAPTER VI.In the struggle which the Church was making to regain its forfeited hold upon the veneration of Christendom its most efficient instrument was not force. It is true that the dign...
15. CHAPTER I.As the twelfth century drew to a close, the Church was approaching a crisis in its career. The vicissitudes of a hundred and fifty years, skilfully improved, had rendered it the...
26. CHAPTER XII.The penal functions of the Inquisition were based upon a fiction which must be comprehended in order rightly to appreciate much of its action. Theoretically it had no power to i...
17. CHAPTER III.The movements described above were the natural outcome of antisacerdotalism seeking to renew the simplicity of the Apostolic Church. It is a singular feature of the religious se...
19. CHAPTER V.The Church had not always been an organization which considered its highest duty to be the forcible suppression of dissidence at any cost. In the simplicity of apostolic times i...
27. CHAPTER XIII.Although, for the most part, as we shall see, confiscation was technically not the work of the Inquisition, the distinction was rather nominal than real. Even in times and place...
16. CHAPTER II.The Church, which we have seen so far removed from its ideal and so derelict in its duties, found itself, somewhat unexpectedly, confronted by new dangers and threatened in the...
23. CHAPTER IX.The procedure of the episcopal courts, as described in a former chapter, was based on the principles of the Roman law, and whatever may have been its abuses in practice, it was...
22. CHAPTER VIII.We have seen how the Church had found persuasion powerless to arrest the spread of heresy. St. Bernard, Foulques de Neuilly, Durán de Huesca, St. Dominic, St. Francis, had succe...
25. CHAPTER XI.From the preceding sketch of the inquisitorial process it may readily be inferred that scant opportunities for defence were allowed by the Holy Office. It was in the very nature...
24. CHAPTER X.We have seen in the foregoing chapter the inevitable tendency of the inquisitorial process to assume the character of a duel between the judge and the accused with the former as...
4. CHAPTER IV.--THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADES.7. CHAPTER VII.--THE INQUISITION FOUNDED.6. CHAPTER VI.--THE MENDICANT ORDERS.1. CHAPTER I.--THE CHURCH.5. CHAPTER V.--PERSECUTION.3. CHAPTER III.--THE CATHARI.13. CHAPTER XIII.--CONFISCATION9. CHAPTER IX.--THE INQUISITORIAL PROCESS.12. CHAPTER XII.--THE SENTENCE.14. CHAPTER XIV.--THE STAKE.8. CHAPTER VIII.--ORGANIZATION.2. CHAPTER II.--HERESY.10. CHAPTER X.--EVIDENCE.11. CHAPTER XI.--THE DEFENCE.