By David Burr. When medieval people used the word "inquisition, " they were referring to a judicial technique, not an organization. There was , in fact, no such thing as "the Inquisition" in the sense of an impersonal organization with a chain of command. Instead there were "inquisitors of heretical depravity, " individuals assigned by the pope to inquire into heresy in specific areas.

Back to Medieval Source Book Medieval Sourcebook: Bernard Gui: Inquisitorial Technique (c.1307-1323) Bernard Gui: was Inquisitor in Toulousel 1307-1323. The medieval inquisition had been created during the reign of Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241). Its main technique was to extract confessions. Bernard describes the techniques used in interrogations. When a heretic is first brought up for ...

Back to Medieval Source Book BERNARD GUI: INQUISITOR'S MANUAL 1. The following deals with the sect of those commonly called Beguins or Beguines: The sect of Beguines, who call themselves poor brothers and say they observe and profess the third rule of Saint Francis, sprang up recently in the provinces of Provence and Narbonne. Their erroneous opinions began to be exposed around the year of our ...

Back to Medieval Source Book Verbal Processes In the following processes, I have given all names in what I at least imagine to be their French form. Thus Petrus Iohannis Olivi turns into Pierre Dejean Olieu, as he does in the Prous selection. I urge you to remember that we're dealing with the same person here, the man whose Apocalypse commentary I've translated in another selection. Bernard ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633 Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, of Florence, aged seventy years, were denounced in 1615, to this Holy Office, for holding as true a false doctrine taught by many, namely, that the sun is immovable in the center of the world, and that the earth moves, and ...

THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger Unabridged online republication of the 1928 edition. Introduction to the 1948 edition is also included. Translation, notes, and two introductions by Montague Summers. A Bull of Innocent VIII. The Malleus Maleficarum Search the Malleus Introduction to Online Edition Introduction to 1948 Edition Introduction to 1928 Edition A Note Upon ...

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Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Henry C Lea (1829-1909): The Inquisition in 17th-Century Peru: Cases of Portuguese Judaizers The most serious business of the tribunal, in the line of its proper functions, was with the apostasy of the Jewish New Christians. From the very foundation of the colonies . . . restrictions were laid on the emigration of Conversos and a law ...