CONTENTS.

BOOK II.—THE INQUISITION IN THE SEVERAL LANDS OF CHRISTENDOM.

[CHAPTER I.—Languedoc.]
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Obstacles to Establishing the Inquisition[1]
Progress and Zeal of the Dominicans[6]
First Appointment of Inquisitors.—Tentative Proceedings[8]
Popular Resistance[12]
Position of Count Raymond[14]
Troubles at Toulouse.—Expulsion of the Inquisition[16]
Its Return and Increasing Vigor[21]
Suspended from 1238 to 1241[24]
Condition of the Country.—Rising of Trencavel[25]
Connection between Religion and State-craft[26]
Pierre Cella’s Activity in 1241-1242[30]
Heretic Stronghold of Montségur[34]
Massacre of Avignonet.—Its Unfortunate Influence[35]
Count Raymond’s Last Effort.—Triumph of the Inquisition[38]
Raymond Reconciled to the Church[40]
Fall of Montségur.—Heresy Defenceless[42]
Increased Activity of the Inquisition[44]
Raymond’s Persecuting Energy.—His Death[46]
Desperation of the Heretics.—Intercourse with Lombardy[49]
Supremacy of Inquisition.—It Attacks the Count of Foix[52]
Death of Alphonse and Jeanne in 1273[56]
Rise of the Royal Power.—Appeals to the King[57]
Popular Discontent.—Troubles at Carcassonne[58]
Philippe le Bel Intervenes.—His Fluctuating Policy[62]
Renewed Troubles at Carcassonne.—Submission in 1299[67]
Prosecutions at Albi, 1299-1300[71]
Inquisitorial Frauds.—Case of Castel Fabri[72]
Frère Bernard Délicieux[75]
Renewed Troubles.—Philippe Sends Jean de Pequigny[77]
Philippe Tries to Reform the Inquisition[79]
Troubles at Albi.—Conflict between Church and State[82]
Philippe Visits Languedoc.—His Plan of Reform[86]
Despair at Carcassonne.—Treasonable Projects[88]
Appeal to Clement V.—Investigation[92]
Abuses Recognized.—Reforms of Council of Vienne[94]
Election of John XXII.[98]
The Inquisition Triumphs.—Fate of Bernard Délicieux[99]
Recrudescence of Heresy.—Pierre Autier[104]
Bernard Gui Extirpates Catharism[107]
Case of Limoux Noir[108]
Results of the Triumph of the Inquisition[109]
Political Effects of Confiscation[110]
[CHAPTER II.—France.]
Inquisition Introduced in 1233 by Frère Robert le Bugre[113]
Opposed by the Prelates.—Encouraged by St. Louis[115]
Robert’s Insane Massacres and Punishment[116]
Inquisition Organized.—Its Activity in 1248[117]
Slender Records of its Proceedings[120]
Paris Auto de fé in 1310.—Marguerite la Porete[123]
Gradual Decadence.—Case of Hugues Aubriot[125]
The Parlement Assumes Superior Jurisdiction[130]
The University of Paris Supplants the Inquisition[135]
Moribund Activity during the Fifteenth Century[138]
Attempt to Resuscitate it in 1451[140]
It Falls into utter Discredit[144]
The French Waldenses.—Their Number and Organization[145]
Intermittent Persecution.—Their Doctrines[147]
François Borel and Gregory XI.[152]
Renewed Persecutions in 1432 and 1441[157]
Protected by Louis XI.—Humiliation of the Inquisition[158]
Alternations of Toleration and Persecution[159]
[CHAPTER III.—The Spanish Peninsula.]
Aragon.—Unimportance of Heresy there[162]
Episcopal and Lay Inquisition Tried in 1233[163]
Papal Inquisition Introduced.—Navarre Included[165]
Delay in Organization[167]
Greater Vigor in the Fourteenth Century[169]
Dispute over the Blood of Christ[171]
Nicolas Eymerich[174]
Separation of Majorca and Valencia[177]
Decline of Inquisition[178]
Resuscitation under Ferdinand the Catholic[179]
Castile.—Inquisition not Introduced there[180]
Cathari in Leon[181]
Independent Legislation of Alonso the Wise[183]
Persecution for Heresy Unknown[184]
Case of Pedro of Osma in 1479[187]
Portugal.—No Effective Inquisition there[188]
[Chapter IV.—ITALY.]
Political Conditions Favoring Heresy[191]
Prevalence of Unconcealed Catharism[192]
Development of the Waldenses[194]
Popular Indifference to the Church[196]
Gregory XI. Undertakes to Suppress Heresy[199]
Gradual Development of Inquisition[201]
Rolando da Cremona[202]
Giovanni Schio da Vicenza[203]
St. Peter Martyr[207]
He Provokes Civil War in Florence[210]
Death of Frederic II. in 1250.—Chief Obstacle Removed[213]
Assassination of St. Peter Martyr.—Use Made of it[214]
Rainerio Saccone[218]
Triumph of the Papacy.—Organization of the Inquisition[220]
Heresy Protected by Ezzelin and Uberto[223]
Ezzelin Prosecuted as a Heretic.—His Death[224]
Uberto Pallavicino[228]
The Angevine Conquest of Naples Revolutionizes Italy[231]
Triumph of Persecution[233]
Sporadic Popular Opposition[237]
Secret Strength of Heresy.—Case of Armanno Pongilupo[239]
Power of the Inquisition.—Papal Interference[242]
Naples.—Toleration Under Normans and Hohenstaufens[244]
The Inquisition Under the Angevines[245]
Sicily[248]
Venice.—Its Independence[249]
Inquisition Introduced in 1288, under State Supervision[251]
Decadence of Inquisition in Fourteenth Century[253]
Disappearance of the Cathari.—Persistence of the Waldenses[254]
Remnants of Catharism in Corsica and Piedmont[255]
Persecution of the Waldenses of Piedmont[259]
Decline of the Lombard Inquisition[269]
Venice.—Subjection of Inquisition to the State[273]
Tuscany.—Increasing Insubordination.—Case of Piero di Aquila[275]
Continued Troubles in Florence[280]
Tommasino da Foligno[281]
Decline of Inquisition in Central Italy[282]
The Two Sicilies.—Inquisition Subordinate to the State[284]
[CHAPTER V.—The Slavic Cathari.]
Efforts of Innocent III. and Honorius III. East of the Adriatic[290]
The Mendicant Orders Undertake the Task[293]
Bloody Crusades from Hungary[294]
Revival of Catharism[298]
Endeavors of Boniface VIII. and John XXII.[299]
Fruitlessness of the Work[301]
Reign of Stephen Tvrtko[303]
Catharism the State Religion[305]
Advance of the Turks[306]
Confusion Aggravated by Persecution[307]
The Cathari Aid the Turkish Conquest[313]
Disappearance of Catharism[314]
[CHAPTER VI.—Germany.]
Persecution of Strassburg Waldenses in 1212[316]
Spread of Waldensianism in Germany[318]
Mystic Pantheism.—The Amaurians and Ortlibenses[319]
Brethren of the Free Spirit or Beghards.—Luciferans[323]
Conrad of Marburg.—His Character and Career[325]
Gregory XI. Vainly Stimulates him to Persecution[329]
Gregory Commissions the Dominicans as Inquisitors[333]
The Luciferan Heresy[334]
Conrad’s Methods and Massacres[336]
Antagonism of the Prelates[338]
Assembly of Mainz.—Conrad’s Defeat and Murder[340]
Persecution Ceases.—The German Church Antagonistic to Rome[342]
The Reaction Keeps the Inquisition out of Germany[346]
Waldenses and Inquisition in Passau[347]
Growth of Heresy.—Virtual Toleration[348]
The Beguines, Beghards, and Lollards[350]
The Brethren of the Free Spirit[354]
Tendency to Mysticism.—Master Eckart[358]
John of Rysbroek, Gerard Groot, and the Brethren of the Common Life[360]
John Tauler and the Friends of God[362]
Persecution of the Brethren of the Free Spirit[367]
Antagonism between Louis of Bavaria and the Papacy[377]
Subservience of Charles IV.—The Black Death[378]
Gregarious Enthusiasm.—The Flagellants[380]
Clement VI. Condemns Them.—They Become Heretics[383]
Attempts to Introduce the Inquisition.—Successful in 1369[385]
Persecution of Flagellants and Beghards.—The Dancing Mania[390]
Beghards and Beguines Protected by the Prelates[394]
Speedy Decline of the Inquisition[395]
The Waldenses.—Their Extension and Persecution[396]
Renewed Persecution of the Beghards[401]
William of Hilderniss, and the Men of Intelligence[405]
The Flagellants.—The Brethren of the Cross[406]
Triumph of the Beghards at Constance[409]
Renewed Persecution[411]
Hussitism in Germany.—Coalescence with Waldenses[414]
Gregory of Heimburg[417]
Hans of Niklaushausen[418]
John von Ruchrath of Wesel[420]
Decay of the Inquisition.—John Reuchlin[423]
Its Impotence in the Case of Luther[425]
[CHAPTER VII.—Bohemia.]
Independence of Bohemian Church.—Waldensianism[427]
Inquisition Introduced in 1257.—Revived by John XXII.[428]
Growth of Waldensianism.—John of Pirna[430]
Conditions Favoring the Growth of Heresy.—Episcopal Inquisition[433]
The Precursors of Huss[436]
Wickliff and Wickliffitism[438]
John Huss Becomes the Leader of Reform[444]
Progress of the Revolution.—Rupture with Rome[445]
Convocation of the Council of Constance[453]
Motives Impelling Huss’s Presence[455]
His Reception and Treatment[457]
His Arrest.—Question of the Safe-conduct[460]
Communion in both Elements[471]
The Trial of Huss.—Illustration of the Inquisitorial Process[473]
Exceptional Audiences Allowed to Huss[484]
Extraordinary Efforts to Procure Recantation[486]
The Inevitable Condemnation and Burning[490]
Indignation in Bohemia[494]
Jerome of Prague.—His Trial and Execution[495]
[CHAPTER VIII.—The Hussites.]
Inquisitorial Methods Attempted in Bohemia[506]
Increasing Antagonism.—Fruitless Threats of Force[508]
Parties Form Themselves.—Calixtins and Taborites[511]
Sigismund Succeeds to the Throne.—Failure of Negotiations[514]
Crusade Preached in 1420.—Its Repulse[516]
Religious Extravagance.—Pikardi, Chiliasts[517]
The Four Articles of the Calixtins[519]
Creed of the Taborites[522]
Failure of Repeated Crusades.—The Hussites Retaliate[525]
Efforts to Reform the Church.—Council of Siena[527]
Council of Basle.—Negotiation with the Hussites a Necessity[530]
The Four Articles the Basis.—Accepted as the “Compactata”[533]
The Taborites Crushed at Lipan[535]
Difficulties Caused by Rokyzana’s Ambition[536]
Insincere Peace.—Sigismund’s Reactionary Reign and Death[538]
The Calixtins Secure Control under George Podiebrad[541]
Rome Disavows the Compactata.—Giacomo della Marca in Hungary[542]
The Use of the Cup the Only Distinction.—Capistrano Sent as Inquisitor[545]
His Projected Hussite Crusade Impeded by the Capture of Constantinople[551]
Efforts to Resist the Turks.—Death of Capistrano at Belgrade[552]
Steady Estrangement of Bohemia.—Negotiations and Attacks[555]
The Compactata Maintained in Spite of Rome[559]
The Bohemian Brethren Arise from the Remains of the Taborites[561]
Their Union with the Waldenses[564]
Their Growth and Constancy under Persecution[566]
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