Category: History - European
The men who laid the foundations of the Inquisition in Languedoc had before them an apparently hopeless task. The whole organization and procedure of the institution were to be developed as experience might dictate and without precedents for guidance. Their uncertain and undef...
The Council of Constance, after eighteen months of labor, had disposed of Huss and Jerome. The methods employed had been the only ones known to the Church, the only ones possibl...
9. CHAPTER I.The men who laid the foundations of the Inquisition in Languedoc had before them an apparently hopeless task. The whole organization and procedure of the institution were to be...
14. CHAPTER VI.In 1209 Henry of Veringen, Bishop of Strassburg, accompanied Otho IV. on his coronation expedition to Rome. We have seen (p. 192) how some of the ecclesiastics in the emperor's...
12. CHAPTER IV.In France we have seen the stubbornness of heresy in alliance with feudalism resisting the encroachments of monarchy. In Italy we meet with different and more complicated condit...
15. CHAPTER VII.There is no historical foundation for the legend that Peter Waldo's missionary labors carried him into Bohemia, where he died, but there can be no question that the Waldensian h...
10. CHAPTER II.Although Catharism never obtained in the North sufficient foothold to render it threatening to the Church, yet the crusades and the efforts which followed the pacification of 12...
11. CHAPTER III.The kingdom of Aragon, stretching across both sides of the Pyrenees, with a population kindred in blood and speech to that of Mediterranean France, was particularly liable to in...
13. CHAPTER V.When Innocent III. found himself confronted with the alarming progress of the Catharan heresy, his vigilant activity did not confine itself to Italy and Languedoc. The home of t...
17. lxv. Six several attempts were made, at various times, to canonizeCapistrano, but the fates were against it. The earlier efforts were neutralized by the opposition of the legate, Nicholas of Cusa, and the jealousy of the rival orders of Domini...
6. CHAPTER VI.--GERMANY.1. CHAPTER I.--LANGUEDOC.4. CHAPTER IV.--ITALY.8. CHAPTER VIII.--THE HUSSITES.2. CHAPTER II.--FRANCE.7. CHAPTER VII.--BOHEMIA.3. CHAPTER III.--THE SPANISH PENINSULA.5. CHAPTER V.--THE SLAVIC CATHARI.