Mediæval Heresy & the InquisitionTurberville, Arthur Stanley
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Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition
Turberville, Arthur Stanley
Heresy; Inquisition; Sects, Medieval
P. Labbe, G. D. Mansi, etc., _Sacrorum conciliorum nova et
amplissima collectio_ (Paris, 1901-13), esp. vol. xxii, 1166-1225;
vol. xxiii, 1225-1268; vol. xxiv, 1269-1299; vol. xxv, 1300-1344;
vol. xxvi, 1344-1409._
For papal bulls between 1198 and 1304 see A. Potthast, _Regesta
Pontificum Romanorum_ (Berlin, 1874 _et seq._).
Important documents relating to the Dominican order are in Ripoll et
Brémond, _Bullarium ordinis S. Dominici_ (8 vols., Rome, 1737 _et
seq._).
The Constitutions of the Emperor Frederick II are in J. L. A.
Huillard-Bréholles, _Historia diplomatica Friderici Secundi_ (Paris,
1852-61).
III
HISTORIES OF THE INQUISITION
There are two useful histories of comparatively early date:
J. Marsollier, _Histoire de l’Inquisition_ (Cologne, 1693).
P. à Limborch, _Historia Inquisitionis_ (Amsterdam, 1692). The
English version is _History of the Inquisition_ (tr. S. Chandler,
London, 1731). The latter is used in this book except when the
_Liber sententiarum_, only printed in the original, is referred
to. Limborch’s, although avowedly a propaganda work, is still of
value, because it was based on the treatises of inquisitors, making
particularly full use of Eymeric, and it is easy to make proper
allowance for the avowed bias.
In 1817 appeared the first version (a French translation) of the great
work on the Spanish Inquisition by J. A. Llorente under the title,
_Histoire critique de l’Inquisition d’Espagne_. The original Spanish
text was not published till 1822. Only the introduction and first four
chapters are relevant to the mediæval Inquisition.
English writers have been mainly interested in the Spanish Inquisition,
as founded by Ferdinand and Isabella, and in the Inquisition in
Portugal. English seamen and traders suffered at their hands, either
in the Peninsula or its dependencies, in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. See, for example, _English Merchants and the Spanish
Inquisition in the Canaries_ (Royal Historical Society, ed. L. de
Alberti, A. B. Wallis Chapman, 1912); R. Dugdale’s _A Narrative of
popish cruelties; or a new account of the Spanish Inquisition_ (1680)
in _Harleian Miscellany_, vol. vii, p. 105; J. Stevens, _The Ancient
and Present State of Portugal ... containing ... A curious Account of
the Inquisition_ (London, 1705). Later English writers show a similar
strongly Protestant bias, _e.g._ F. B. Wright, _A History of Religious
Persecution from the Apostolic to the Present Time; and of the
Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal and Goa_ (1816); W. H. Rule, _History
of the Inquisition_ (London, 1868). Only the first nine chapters of the
last-named book are concerned with the Middle Ages.
All previous works were superseded by the monumental labours of the
American historian, H. C. Lea, in his
_Superstition and Force_ (Philadelphia, 1866; 4th ed., 1892).
_A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages_ (New York, 1887).
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