Mediæval Heresy & the InquisitionTurberville, Arthur Stanley
History
Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition
Turberville, Arthur Stanley
Heresy; Inquisition; Sects, Medieval
[292] Mansi, vol. xxii, p. 785.
[293] _Ibid._, vol. xxiii, p. 24, § xiv. ‘_Ut sint in omnibus
parochiis, qui de haeresi & manifestis criminibus inquirant._’
[294] _Ibid._ p. 194, § i.
[295] Mansi, vol. xxii, pp. 989-90.
[296] See De Cauzons, vol. i, p. 395; P. Fournier, _Les Officialités au
Moyen Age_ (Paris, 1880), pp. 266-9.
[297] Ludovico à Paramo, pp. 27, 31, 49.
[298] Luchaire, _op. cit._, p. 71. ‘En 1204, il enleva aux évêques,
pour la donner aux légats, la juridiction ordinaire en matière
d’hérésie, première esquisse du procédé d’où sortira l’Inquisition.’
To which M. Douais rightly retorts: ‘Il n’est pas exact de dire que le
Pape enleva aux évêques la juridiction ordinaire en matière d’hérésie.
Il ne leur enleva rien.’ _L’Inquisition_, p. 67. See, however, De
Cauzons, vol. i, p. 414. ‘Sans enlever donc aux évêques le droit de
juger les hérétiques, les rescrits romains constituaient, à côté de
leur tribunal, un pouvoir, pouvant juger lui aussi, avec des juges
d’une juridiction plus étendue que le leur, ayant le droit d’exiger des
chefs des diocèses l’obéissance à leur autorité. Il suffisait d’assurer
à ce tribunal nouveau les moyens d’exécuter ses sentences et de le
rendre permanent, pour avoir l’Inquisition.’
[299] For claim that Dominic was the first inquisitor, see Ludovico à
Paramo, pp. 95-6; Douais, _L’Inquisition_, pp. 25-6; De Cauzons, vol.
i, p. 421 n. Dominic was certainly more than a missionary preacher; he
examined and condemned heretics. See Acton, _op. cit._, p. 554.
[300] It has been said, truly, that it is neither the crime, nor the
procedure, nor the penalty that makes the inquisitor in the strict
sense; but his character as a permanent _judge-delegate_ for the cause
of heresy. Douais, _L’Inquisition_, pp. 37-8.
[301] For text of commission to Conrad, see Frédéricq, _Corpus_, vol.
i, p. 71, No. 72. ‘ ... diligenter et vigilanter inquiras heretica
pravitate infectos in partibus memoratis, ut per illos, ad quos
pertinet, zizania valeat de agro Domini extirpari.’ Douais on this
comments (_op. cit._, p. 53 n.), ‘Si Conrad eut été inquisiteur, c’est
à lui que ce soin eût d’abord incombé comme juge.’ The argument is
invalid. The appeal to the assistance of the secular arm is normal and
certainly does not prove Conrad not to have been an inquisitor. See
Lea, vol. ii, p. 319, ‘This was in effect an informal commission as
inquisitor-general for Germany’; and De Cauzons, vol. i, p. 449.
[302] For text of the bull, _Ille humani generis_, see Mansi, vol.
xxiii, pp. 74-5; Frédéricq, _Corpus_, vol. i, No. 83, pp. 82-3. The
Friars are urged to demolish the heretics who ‘sicut cancer serperent
in occulto, & velut vulpes latentes niterentur vineam Domini Sabaoth
demoliri.’
[303] Lea, vol. i, p. 328. _Cf._ Tanon, _op. cit._, p. 175, who
considers that Lea does not attach sufficient importance to these bulls.
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