A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III
CHAPTER IV.--POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE CHURCH.
Denial of Papal Claims Pronounced Heresy 181
The Stedingers.--Tithes Enforced by Crusades 182
Crusades to Support Italian Interests of Papacy 189
Importance of Inquisition as a Political Agency 190
Advantage of the Charge of Heresy 191
Manfred of Naples.--The Colonnas.--Ferrara 193
John XXII. and the Visconti 196
Cola di Rienzo.--The Maffredi 203
Use of Inquisition in the Great Schism 204
Case of Thomas Connecte 208
Girolamo Savonarola 209