A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages - Couverture rigide

Lea, Henry Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1298826373 ISBN 13 : 9781298826374

Editeur : Andesite Press, 2015

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Tn Emen who laid the foundations of the Inquisition in Languedoc had before them an apparently hopeless task. The whole organization and procedure of the institution were to be developed as experience might dictate and without precedents for guidance. Their uncertain and undefined powers were to be exercised under peculiar difficulties. Heresy was everywhere and aU-pervading. A a unknown but certainly large portion of the population was addicted to Catharism or Waldensianism, while even the orthodox could not, for the most part, be rehed upon for sympathy or aid. Practical toleration had existed for so many generations, and so many families had heretic members, that the population at large was yet to be educated in the holy horror of doctrinal aberrations. National feeling, moreover, and the memory of common wrongs suffered dui ing twenty years of bitter contest with invading soldiers of the Cross, during which Cathoho and Catharan had stood side by side in defence of the fatherland, had created the strongest bonds of sympathy between the different sects. In the cities the magistrates were, if not heretics, inclined to toleration and jealous of their municipal rights and liberties. Throughout the country many powerful nobles were avowedly or secretly heretics, and Raymond of Toulouse himself was regarded aa little better than a II.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Andesite Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1298826373
• ISBN 13: 9781298826374
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 102
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