Medieval Inquisition - Wikipedia
WEBThe Medieval Inquisition was a series of Inquisitions (Catholic Church bodies charged with suppressing heresy) from around 1184, including the Episcopal Inquisition (1184–1230s) and later the Papal Inquisition (1230s).
Inquisition | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica
WEBAug 30, 2024 · Inquisition, a judicial procedure and later an institution that was established by the papacy and, sometimes, by secular governments to combat heresy. The name was applied to commissions in the 13th century and subsequently to similar structures in early modern Europe.
Inquisition - Wikipedia
WEBThe inquisitorial courts from this time until the mid-15th century are together known as the Medieval Inquisition. Other groups investigated during the Medieval Inquisition, which primarily took place in France and Italy, include the …
Inquisition ‑ Spanish, Roman & Torture - HISTORY
WEBNov 17, 2017 · The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Americas. Beginning in the 12th century and continuing for hundreds...
Inquisition, The: The Inquisition in the Old World
WEBThe long history of the Inquisition divides easily into two major parts: its creation by the medieval papacy in the early thirteenth century, and its transformation between 1478 and 1542 into permanent governmental bureaucracies — the Spanish, Portuguese, and Roman Inquisitions, all of which endured into the nineteenth century.
Inquisition summary | Britannica
WEBInquisition, In the Middle Ages, a judicial procedure that was used to combat heresy; in early modern times, a formal Roman Catholic judicial institution.
Inquisition - Religious Persecution, Heresy, Europe | Britannica
WEBAug 30, 2024 · From the 15th to the 19th century, inquisitions were permanently established, bureaucratically organized, appointed, and supervised tribunals of clergy (and occasionally laymen). They were charged with the discovery and extirpation of heterodox religious opinion and practice in Christian Europe.
A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages
WEBThis 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.
WEBHenry Charles Lea’s comprehensive three-volume history of the medieval Inquisition, first published in 1888, was firmly based on primary sources and was influential in fostering a rationalist approach to medieval history, breaking with the pious and reverential tone of earlier nineteenth-century work on the middle ages.
A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages
WEBHenry Charles Lea's comprehensive three-volume history of the medieval Inquisition, first published in 1888, was firmly based on primary sources. 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.
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