Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition

by Arthur Stanley Turberville

[275] This is the argument of Maillet, op. cit., p. 49.

[276] See Frédéricq, Revue historique, p. 320.

[277] A. Luchaire, Innocent III; la croisade des Albigeois (Paris, 1905), pp. 58-9.

[278] Ibid., pp. 17, 27.

[279] Ibid., pp. 7-8; Tanon, p. 21.

[280] Luchaire, op. cit., p. 103.

[281] J. C. L. Sismondi, History of the Crusades against the Albigenses (Eng. trans.), p. 53.

[282] Lea, vol. i, p. 154. See, however, Lord Acton in his review of Lea’s work in The History of Freedom of Thought and other Essays (1909), p. 567. The chronicler, Caesarius Heisterbach, does not relate a fact, but tells a story, which may or may not be fact.

[283] The potestas inquirendi handed down from Christ to St. Peter has been annexed to the episcopal dignity. See Ludovico à Paramo, op. cit., book ii, p. 89.

[284] C. Douais, L’Inquisition; ses origines, sa procédure (Paris, 1906), pp. 45-6.