Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages
In a former chapter we considered the Mendicants as an active agency in the suppression of heresy. One of the Orders, however, by no means restricted itself to this function, and we have now to examine the career of the Franciscans as the subjects of the spirit of persecuting...
The relations of the Greek Church to the Holy See would almost justify the assumption that persecution of heresy, far from being a matter of conscience, was one of expediency, t...
14. CHAPTER V.It was inevitable that secular potentates should follow the example of the Church in the employment of a weapon so efficient as the charge of heresy, when they chanced to be in...
15. CHAPTER VI.Few things are so indestructible as a superstitious belief once fairly implanted in human credulity. It passes from one race to another and is handed down through countless gene...
10. CHAPTER I.In a former chapter we considered the Mendicants as an active agency in the suppression of heresy. One of the Orders, however, by no means restricted itself to this function, an...
17. CHAPTER VIII.The only heresies which really troubled the Church were those which obtained currency among the people unassisted by the ingenious quodlibets of dialecticians. Possibly there ma...
16. CHAPTER VII.While, as we have seen, princes and warriors were toying with the dangerous mysteries of the occult sciences, influencing the destinies of states, there had been for half a cent...
13. CHAPTER IV.The identification of the cause of the Church with that of God was no new thing. Long before the formulation of laws against heresy and the organization of the Inquisition for i...
12. CHAPTER III.We have seen how John XXII. created and exterminated the heresy of the Spiritual Franciscans, and how Michele da Cesena enforced obedience within the Order as to the question of...
11. CHAPTER II.The spiritual exaltation which produced among the Franciscans the developments described in the last chapter was by no means confined to the recognized members of that Order. It...
5. CHAPTER V.--POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE STATE.1. CHAPTER I.--THE SPIRITUAL FRANCISCANS.6. CHAPTER VI.--SORCERY AND OCCULT ARTS.7. CHAPTER VII.--WITCHCRAFT.3. CHAPTER III.--THE FRATICELLI.4. CHAPTER IV.--POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE CHURCH.2. CHAPTER II.--GUGLIELMA AND DOLCINO.8. CHAPTER VIII.--INTELLECT AND FAITH.9. CHAPTER IX.--CONCLUSION.