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... GREAT SCHISM AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY By A. L. MAYCOCK , M.A. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FATHER RONALD KNOX HARPER & BROTHERS , PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON 1927 PREFATORY NOTE THE present study of the medieval Inquisition makes THE ...
... GREAT SCHISM AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY By A. L. MAYCOCK , M.A. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FATHER RONALD KNOX HARPER & BROTHERS , PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON 1927 PREFATORY NOTE THE present study of the medieval Inquisition makes THE ...
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An Introductory Study Alan Lawson Maycock. PREFATORY NOTE THE present study of the medieval Inquisition makes no pretence either to exhaustiveness or to originality . Indeed , it may be said to take the form rather of a study than of a ...
An Introductory Study Alan Lawson Maycock. PREFATORY NOTE THE present study of the medieval Inquisition makes no pretence either to exhaustiveness or to originality . Indeed , it may be said to take the form rather of a study than of a ...
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... medieval principle by one who still believed in it . Whilst , therefore , we must guard against the oft- repeated assertion that the Inquisition was a purely criminal tribunal which became swamped in political intrigue and subserved to ...
... medieval principle by one who still believed in it . Whilst , therefore , we must guard against the oft- repeated assertion that the Inquisition was a purely criminal tribunal which became swamped in political intrigue and subserved to ...
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... Inquisition dates , all four propositions were unheard of amongst the general public , whether Catholic or Protestant . It is impossible to think ourselves back behind so many years of history ... medieval heresies , which INTRODUCTION xiii.
... Inquisition dates , all four propositions were unheard of amongst the general public , whether Catholic or Protestant . It is impossible to think ourselves back behind so many years of history ... medieval heresies , which INTRODUCTION xiii.
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... Inquisition was primarily designed to combat . When every possible allowance ... medieval heretics discouraged the natural use of marriage , and such ... Inquisitors , then , were combating a social , not merely a theological danger . Nor ...
... Inquisition was primarily designed to combat . When every possible allowance ... medieval heretics discouraged the natural use of marriage , and such ... Inquisitors , then , were combating a social , not merely a theological danger . Nor ...
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Page 258 - never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxims that govern your own life, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict
Page 26 - Suppose you teach your children to be thieves ? Mayo. This is making a joke of the subject. Johnson. Nay, Sir, take it thus : that you teach them the community of goods ; for which there are as many plausible arguments as for most erroneous doctrines. You teach them that all things
Page 26 - society—• property. And don't you think the magistrate would have a right to prevent you ? Or suppose you should teach your children the notion of the Adamites, and they should run naked in the streets, would not the magistrate have a right to flog them into their
Page 52 - is to be found in the absolutely logical character of the mediaeval mind. Henry Adams notes that, in the Middle Ages, " words had fixed values like numbers ; and syllogisms were hewn stones that needed only to be set in place in order to reach any height or to support any weight.
Page 30 - symbol. I will not repeat your words, M.' du Pallet, outside this cloister, because the consequences to you would certainly be fatal ; but it is only too clear that you are a materialist, and as such your fate must be decided by a Church Council, unless you prefer the stake by judgment of a secular court.'
Page 26 - Johnson. Every society has a right to preserve publick peace and order, and therefore has a good right to prohibit the propagation of opinions which have a dangerous tendency.
Page 63 - Love is the medium through which alone the hero surveys the world around him, and for which he contemns everything that the age prized ; knightly honour, deeds of arms, father and mother, hell and even heaven ; but the mere promise by his father of a kiss from Nicolette inspires him to superhuman heroism
Page 97 - We, seeing you engrossed in the whirlwind of cares and scarce able to breathe in the pressure of overwhelming anxieties, think it well to divide your burdens, that they may be more easily borne. We have, therefore, determined to send preaching Friars against the heretics of France,
Page 21 - the establishment of the Protestant ascendency, it was decreed that Gerard, the assassin of William the Silent, should have " his right hand cut off" with a red-hot iron, his flesh torn from his bones in six different places, that he should be quartered and disembowelled alive, that his
Page 76 - was also taking form in his soul ; and that in the same year (1204) in which the new Latin Empire was founded in Constantinople, the newly erected hospital of the Santo Spirito, by the old bridge across the Tiber, was blessed and dedicated as the future centre of this