The Inquisition : $b a political and military study of its establishmentNickerson, Hoffman
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The Inquisition : $b a political and military study of its establishment
Nickerson, Hoffman
Albigenses; Christian heresies -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Inquisition; Prohibition
[38] “This and That and the Other,” Hilaire Belloc, pp. 18, 19.
[39] Chesterton on Shaw, p. 43.
[40] “Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century,” by Henry
Osborn Taylor, published by Macmillan Co., New York. 1920. Chapter on
Calvin.
[41] From Chapter I of the “History of the United States,” by Cecil
Chesterton, p. 31.
[42] Chesterton on Shaw, pp. 48, 49, 50.
[43] “The Education of Henry Adams, an Autobiography.” “Vis Inertiæ,”
p. 445. Houghton, Mifflin Co., New York, 1918. Chapter XXX.
[44] “The New Politics, and Other Essays,” by William Garrott Brown,
publ. Houghton, Mifflin, New York. 1913. Pp. 157-158.
[45] “Have Faith in Massachusetts,” Calvin Coolidge, p. 4.
[46] St. Matthew’s Gospel, ch. xi, v. 19.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
The subject of the Inquisition has been worked over so often that it
is doubtful whether renewed searching of the original authorities
would yield great profit. The law of diminishing returns comes in.
The sources quoted in this bibliography are unequal in value. As
interpreter of the Mediæval spirit Henry Adams comes first and after
him Taylor. For Albigensianism and St. Dominic, Guiraud is best; and
Vacandard for the mechanism and spirit of the thirteenth century
Inquisition. On mediæval warfare in general there is almost nothing
of value. Delpech is the best, supplemented by Dieulafoy as to Muret.
The one author who has gone over the whole subject, including the
entire course of the Albigensian War, is Lea, whose vast learning and
exactitude in matters of fact would have made him a great historian
had he possessed a grain of imagination or the least spark of
sympathy with the Middle Ages. In this respect Luchaire gains through
citizenship in a Catholic country, but his book ends with Innocent’s
death.
I have included a number of books used to illustrate particular
points, and also a handful of old-fashioned Protestant historians
whom the reader will value more for what their works will tell them
about themselves than about their subject. Limborch is not so bad;
his learning has evidently fought (and lost) a real battle against
his partisanship.
“Life of St. Dominic and a Sketch of the Dominican Order.”
Introduction by Most Rev. J. S. Alemany. P. O’Shea: New York.
“The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography.” Houghton, Mifflin
and Co.: New York and Boston. Riverside Press: Cambridge.
“Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres,” Introduction by Ralph Adams,
Cram Henry Adams. Houghton, Mifflin and Co.: New York and Boston.
Riverside Press: Cambridge, 1913.
“The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma,” Henry Adams. Houghton,
Mifflin and Co.: New York and Boston. Riverside Press: Cambridge,
1913.
“In St. Dominic’s Country” (Preface by Rev. T. M. Schwetner, O.P.,
S.T.L.), C. M. Antony. Longmans, Green and Co.: London and New York.
“The Emancipation of Massachusetts,” Brooks Adams. Houghton,
Mifflin and Co.: New York and Boston, 1919.
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