Lord Acton’s The History of Freedom of Thought and other Essays (London, 1909);
P. Frédéricq’s Introduction to the French translation of Lea’s History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (tr. S. Reinach, Paris, 1900, pp. i-xxviii);
and in articles by S. Reinach on his Spanish Inquisition in Revue Critique, No. 18, May 1906, p. 300; No. 42, Oct. 1907, p. 301; No. 5, Feb. 1908, p. 86.
Recent works from the Romanist standpoint have been:
C. Douais, L’Inquisition; ses Origines, sa Procédure (Paris, 1906).
H. Maillet, L’Église et la répression sanglante de l’hérésie (Liège, 1909).
E. Vacandard, The Inquisition, a Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Powers of the Church (tr. B. L. Conway, 1908).
C. Moeller, Les Bûchers et les Autos-da-fé de l’Inquisition depuis le Moyen Age in Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique (Louvain, 1913, vol. xiv, pp. 720-51).
Mgr. Douais has done much able and learned work on the history of the mediæval Inquisition, and the Abbé Vacandard’s book is most moderate and fair-minded. The most considerable work of scholarship written on the subject of recent years has, however, been T. de Cauzons, Histoire de l’Inquisition en France (2 vols., Paris, 1909, 1913, unfinished).
There is a critical survey of some of the most recent work done on the Inquisition by P. Frédéricq, Les récents historiens catholiques de l’Inquisition en France in Revue historique, vol. cix, 1912, pp. 307-34). Mainly critical is C. V. Langlois, L’Inquisition après des travaux récents (Paris, 1902).
IV
Legal Aspect of the Inquisition
On this important subject there is not a great deal, but the following are excellent and most valuable:
L. Tanon, Histoire des Tribunaux de l’Inquisition en France (Paris, 1893).
P. Fournier, Les Officialités au Moyen Age (Paris, 1889).
A. Esmein, Histoire de la Procédure Criminelle en France, et spécialement de la procédure inquisitoire (Paris, 1882).