The Inquisition: A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the ChurchLongmans, Green, 1908 - 284 pages |
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The Inquisition: A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of ... E. Vacandard No preview available - 2010 |
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3ª pars accused aliis animadversio debita auctoritate Augustine autem authority auto de fé banishment Beiträge Bernard Gui Bishop bull burned canonists Catharan Cathari Catholic Causa Christian Church civil condemned confession confiscation consolamentum Council crime criminal cruel cruelty death penalty declared decreed defend denounced Directorium Directorium inquisitorum Doat doctrine Döllinger Domini Dominican Douais Ecclesia ecclesiastical emperor enforce enim eorum etiam excommunication Eymeric faith Ficker France Frederic fuerint Germ Gregory Gregory IX hæreticis heresy heretics hujusmodi ibid imprisonment inflicted Innocent Innocent III Inquisition inquisitionis Inquisitors judge judicio Julien Havet l'Inquisition Leges Manicheans merely Middle Ages nisi nobis omnes Pamiers Paris podestà Pope Priscillian prisoner prosecute punishment quæ quam quia quod Raymond of Pennafort relapsed says sect secular arm sentences sive stake Summa sunt supra tali Tanon tion torture Toulouse tribunals vero
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Page 3 - Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Page 76 - Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 178 - If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth.
Page 192 - ... the imprisonment would be ordered to take place in a convent of their own Order. As these buildings, however, usually were provided with cells for the punishment of offenders, this was probably of no great advantage to the victim. In the case of Jeanne, widow of B. de la Tour, a nun of Lespenasse, in 1246, who had committed acts of both Catharan and "Waldensian heresy, and had prevaricated in her confession, the sentence was confinement in a separate cell in her own convent, where no one was...
Page 234 - ... sake, we cannot but admit that the cause of orthodoxy was in this case the cause of progress and civilization. Had Catharism become dominant, or even had it been allowed to exist on equal terms, its influence could not have failed to prove disastrous. Its asceticism with regard to commerce between the sexes, if strictly enforced, could only have led to the extinction of the race, and as this involves a contradiction of nature, it would...
Page 200 - Faunos, quos vulgo incubos vocant, improbos saepe extitisse mulieribus, et earum appetisse ac peregisse concubitum; et quosdam daemones, quos Dusios Galli nuncupant, hanc assidue immunditiam et tentare et efficere ; plures talesque asseverant, ut hoc negare impudentia...
Page 80 - And when he was come into the house, JESUS prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive tribute or custom? of their own children, or of strangers? 25 And he said: Of strangers. JESUS said to him : Then the children are free.
Page 5 - However, it is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions : one man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion — to which free-will and not force should lead us — the sacrificial victims even being required of a willing mind.
Page 226 - ... loaf of bread or a pot of wine by a servant from his master was punished by the loss of a limb. In Frisia arson committed at night was visited with burning alive; and, by the old German law, the penalty of both murder and arson was breaking on the wheel. In France women were customarily burned or buried alive for simple felonies, and Jews were hung by the feet between two savage dogs, while men were boiled to death for coining.