The Inquisition: A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the ChurchLongmans, Green, 1907 - 284 pages |
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3ª pars accused aliis animadversio debita Augustine autem auto de fé banishment Beiträge Bernard Gui Bishop bull burned canon law canonists Catharan Cathari Catholic Causa century Christ Christian Church civil condemned confession confiscation consolamentum Council crime criminal cruel death penalty declared decreed Decretals defend denounced Directorium Directorium inquisitorum Doat Documents Döllinger Dominican Douais Ecclesia ecclesiastical emperor endura enforce eorum etiam excommunication Eymeric faith Ficker France Frederic fuerint Germ Gratian Gregory hæreticis hæreticorum heresy heretics Holy hujusmodi ibid imprisonment inflicted Innocent Innocent III Inquisition inquisitionis Inquisitors judge judicio Julien Havet Languedoc Manicheans merely Migne Moneta nisi Pamiers Paris penance podestà Pope practice princes Priscillian prisoner prosecute punishment quæ quam quia quod relapsed Roman law says sect secular arm sentences stake Summa sunt supra tamen Tanon tion torture Toulouse tribunals vero
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Page 1 - Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Page viii - 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...
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 74 - 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 192 - ... 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 to enter...
Page 232 - ... 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 78 - 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 129 - ... a father-confessor with his penitents. Its sentences, therefore, were not, like those of an earthly judge, the retaliation of society on the wrong-doer, or deterrent examples to prevent the spread of crime ; they were simply imposed for the benefit of the erring soul, to wash away its sin. The inquisitors themselves habitually speak of their ministrations in this sense.
Page 3 - 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.