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A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages
3 Volume Paperback Set

Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History

Author: Henry Charles Lea

Date Published: June 2010
availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
format: Multiple copy pack
isbn: 9781108014861

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This comprehensive three-volume history of the medieval Inquisition by the influential American scholar Henry Charles Lea, first published in 1888, was firmly based on primary sources, and adopted a rationalist approach that departed from the pious tone of earlier histories of the middle ages. Lea was convinced that the Inquisition was not arbitrarily devised and implemented but was an inevitable consequence of forces that were dominant in thirteenth-century Christian society. In order to give as full a picture of the Inquisition as possible, Lea first examines the jurisprudence of the period and explores the events that prompted the Church to set up such an institution. Volume 2 describes the Inquisition in France, Spain, Italy and Germany, and local opposition to it. The final volume focuses on the impact of the Inquisition on scholarship and intellectual life, faith, politics and society.

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Product details
- Date Published: June 2010
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108014861
- length: 1956 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
Book I. Origin and Organization of the Inquisition:
1. The Church
2. Heresy
3. The Cathari
4. The Albigensian Crusades
5. Persecution
6. The Mendicant orders
7. The Inquisition founded
8. Organization
9. The Inquisitorial process
10. Evidence
11. The defence
12. The sentence
13. Confiscation
14. The stake
Appendix. Volume 2: Book II. The Inquisition in the Several Lands of Christendom:
1. Languedoc
2. France
3. The Spanish peninsula
4. Italy
5. The Slavic Cathari
6. Germany
7. Bohemia
8. The Hussites
Appendix of documents. Volume 3: Book III. Special Fields of Inquisitorial Activity:
1. The Spiritual Franciscans
2. Guglielma and Dolcino
3. The Fraticelli
4. Political heresy utilized by the Church
5. Political heresy utilized by the state
6. Sorcery and occult arts
7. Witchcraft
8. Intellect and faith
9. Conclusion
Appendix of documents
Index.
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Henry Charles Lea