A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III
A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, Volume III completes the three-volume work Henry Charles Lea published in 1888. Having described the organization of the Inquisition and its campaigns against the Cathars and Waldensians, Lea here turns to special fields: the Spiritual Franciscans and their quarrel over poverty, the sects of Guglielma and Fra Dolcino, the Fraticelli, the use of heresy charges for political ends by the Church and by the State, including the destruction of the Templars and the trial of Joan of Arc, the prosecution of sorcery and the occult arts, the rise of the witch persecutions, and the relation between the Inquisition and the intellectual life of the age. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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