A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, Volume 1Cosimo, Inc., 1 déc. 2005 - 600 pages Unaccustomed to restraint, vigorous manhood asserted itself in all its greatness and all its littleness, whether in wreaking cruel vengeance upon the defenceless or in offering itself joyfully as a sacrifice to humanity. Thrills of delirious emotion spread from land to land, arousing the populations from their lethargy in blind attempts to achieve they scarcely knew what...-from "Chapter II: Heresy"Considered America's first great scholar of the Middle Ages and a trailblazing proponent of utilizing primary sources when inquiring into the past, Henry Charles Lea gave us what is still a vital history of the centuries-long reign of terror known as the Inquisition. A passionate account of mass hysteria, its spiritual and intellectual roots, and its "inevitable" evolution, this is grimly fascinating and highly readable, an excellent investigation into one of the foundations of modern civilization the repercussions of which are still being felt today. Volume 1 of this three-volume 1888 work explores the rigid asceticism of early Christian sects, the cruelty of the Albigensian crusaders and their "mad carnage and pillage," the growth of intolerance in the early Church, the Inquisitorial process, and much more.American historian and publisher HENRY CHARLES LEA (1825-1909) also wrote Superstition and Force (1866), Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy (1867), and History of the Inquisition of Spain (1906-1908). |
Table des matières
1 | |
7 | |
11 | |
13 | |
15 | |
23 | |
31 | |
41 | |
Efforts to Establish an Episcopal Inquisition | 313 |
Secular Legislation for Suppression of Heresy | 319 |
Tentative Introduction of Papal Inquisitors | 326 |
Struggle between Bishops and Inquisitors | 332 |
Growth of Episcopal Jurisdiction | 334 |
Resources for Extracting Confession Deceit | 335 |
Wearing Crosses | 336 |
All Opposing Legislation Annulled | 341 |
44 | |
Motives Impelling to Persecution | 51 |
Contemporary Opinion | 53 |
Miscellaneous Penances | 59 |
Awakening of the Human Intellect in the Twelfth Century | 62 |
Pierre de Bruys | 68 |
59 | 77 |
68 | 83 |
Exaggerated Detestation of Heresy | 85 |
139 | 96 |
St Francis of Assisi | 100 |
141 | 107 |
Interrogatory of the Accused | 110 |
THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADES | 129 |
Crusades to Palestine | 140 |
The Lateran Council It Decides in De Montforts Favor | 181 |
Duplicity of Honorius III Council of Bourges Nov 1225 | 193 |
His Conquering Advance His Retreat and Death | 199 |
PERSECUTION | 209 |
Policy of the Church towards Heresy | 219 |
Importance Attached to Confession | 294 |
THE INQUISITION FOUNDED | 305 |
Extent of Jurisdiction | 347 |
129 | 349 |
Procedure in Episcopal Courts The Inquisitorial Process | 353 |
Africa and the East | 355 |
Greater Efficiency of the Papal Inquisition | 364 |
Inquisitorial Districts Itinerant Inquests | 370 |
Arbitrary Penalties | 371 |
Translations of Scripture forbidden at Metz | 374 |
Personnel of the Tribunal | 377 |
Comparative Frequency of Different Penalties | 379 |
Resources of the State at Command of Inquisitors | 385 |
Cooperation of Tribunals | 395 |
Retraction of Confessions | 400 |
The Church Responsible for its Introduction | 404 |
Power of Raymond VI of Toulouse | 423 |
Flimsiness of Evidence Admitted | 431 |
Secrecy of Confessional Disregarded | 437 |
CHAPTER XITHE DEfence | 443 |
Condition of the Church in his Dominions | 452 |
Undertakes the Suppression of Heresy | 464 |
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A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, Volume 1 Henry Charles Lea Affichage du livre entier - 1887 |
A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, Volume 1 Henry Charles Lea Affichage du livre entier - 1887 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Abbot accused Annal Aragon Archbishop Arnaud Bernard Bernard Gui Béziers bishops brethren Bull burned canon canon law Carcassonne Cardinal Catharan Cathari Catholic century Christ Christendom Christian Chron Church clergy command condemned confession Council Count of Foix Count of Toulouse crusade death Dist Doat Dominican duty ecclesiastical enforce episcopal Epist evil excommunication faith favor Foulques France Franciscan friars Gregory Guidon Hæret Heisterbac held heresy heretics Hist Holy Honorius Innocent Inquis Inquisition inquisitor jurisdiction king l'Inq land Languedoc Lateran Laurent Layettes legate Louis Manichæan Manichæism Martene Mendicants mercy Mirac monks Montfort Nangiac Narbonne nobles oath offered papal Paris Pedro penance persecution Peter Philip Augustus Pierre de Castelnau pope preaching prelates priest punishment Raymond refused Regest rendered Roman Rome salvation Sarnens Satan secular sentence sins souls spiritual summoned Thesaur tion Tolosan Toulouse Tudela Vaissette Waldenses zeal
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Page v - I have not paused to moralize, but I have missed my aim if the events narrated are not so presented as to teach their appropriate lesson.
Page iv - 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...
Page 2 - ... priests who had no material force at their command, and whose power was based alone on the souls and consciences of men. Over soul and conscience their empire was complete. No Christian could hope for salvation who was not in all things an obedient son of the Church, and who was not ready to take up arms in its defence ; and, in a time when faith was a determining factor of conduct, this belief created a spiritual despotism which placed all things within reach of him who could wield it.
Page 5 - The least of the priestly order is worthier than any king," exclaims Honorius of Autun ; " prince and people are subjected to the clergy, which shines superior as the sun to the moon." Innocent III. used a more spiritual metaphor when he declared that the priestly power was as superior to the secular as the soul of man was to his body ; and he summed up his estimate of his own position by pronouncing himself to be the Vicar of Christ, the Christ of the Lord, the God of Pharaoh, placed midway between...