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1 online resource (178 pages) |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER I-FIRST PERIOD: I-IV CENTURY; THE EPOCH OF THE PERSECUTIONS; CHAPTER II-SECOND PERIOD: FROM VALENTINIAN I TO THEODOSIUS II; THE CHURCH AND THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE CHRISTIAN EMPERORS AGAINST HERESY; CHAPTER III-THIRD PERIOD: FROM 1100 TO 1250; THE REVIVAL OF THE MANICHEAN HERESIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES; CHAPTER IV-FOURTH PERIOD: FROM GRATIAN TO INNOCENT III; THE INFLUENCE OF THE CANON LAW, AND THE REVIVAL OF THE ROMAN LAW; CHAPTER V-THE CATHARAN OR ALBIGENSIAN HERESY-ITS ANTI-CATHOLIC AND ANTI-SOCIAL CHARACTER |
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CHAPTER VI-FIFTH PERIOD: GREGORY IX AND FREDERIC IITHE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONASTIC INQUISITION; CHAPTER VII-SIXTH PERIOD: DEVELOPMENT OF THE INQUISITION; INNOCENT IV AND THE USE OF TORTURE; CHAPTER VIII-THEOLOGIANS, CANONISTS, AND CASUISTS OF THE INQUISITION; CHAPTER IX-THE INQUISITION IN OPERATION; CHAPTER X-A CRITICISM OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE INQUISITION; APPENDIX A-PROCESSUS INQUISITIONIS; APPENDIX B-CONDEMNATIONS OF THE INQUISITOR, BERNARD GUI, 1308-1323; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
In this penetrating study of the Inquisition, Elphg̈e Vacandard delves into the Catholic Church's dark past. "The history of the Inquisition is still to be written. It is not our purpose to attempt it; our ambition is more modest. But we wish to picture this institution in its historical setting, to show how it originated, and especially to indicate its relation to the Church's notion of the coercive power prevalent in the Middle Ages. For as [Henry Charles] Lea [author of three large volumes entitled "A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages" published in 1888] himself says: "The Inquisition was not an organization arbitrarily devised and imposed upon the judicial system of Christendom by the ambition or fanaticism of the Church. It was rather a natural-one may almost say an inevitable-evolution of the forces at work in the thirteenth century, and no one can rightly appreciate the process of its development and the results of its activity, without a somewhat minute consideration of the factors controlling the minds and souls of men during the ages which laid the foundation of modern civilization." We undertake this study in a spirit of absolute honesty and sincerity. The subject is undoubtedly a most delicate one. But no consideration whatever should prevent our studying it from every possible viewpoint." -- Provided by publisher |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Inquisition -- History
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Inquisition
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Conway, Father Bertrand L
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| ISBN |
9781786258618 |
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1786258617 |
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