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The book was used as a manual for inquisitors, and gave practical advice on how to conduct inquiries. [3] It also described various means an accused heretic might use to dissemble, such as equivocation or the pretense of insanity. [5] Witchcraft, which was a marginal issue for early inquisitors, assumed more importance in the later edition. [2]
The Inquisition was permanently established in 1229 (Council of Toulouse), run largely by the Dominicans [34] in Rome and later at Carcassonne in Languedoc. In 1252, the Papal Bull Ad extirpanda , following another assassination by Cathars, charged the head of state with funding and selecting inquisitors from monastic orders; this caused ...
Four Dominican friars have served as Bishop of Rome: Pope Innocent V (r. 1276) Pope Benedict XI (r. 1303-04) Pope Pius V (r. 1566-72) Pope Benedict XIII (r. 1724-30) There are six Dominican friars in the College of Cardinals: Dominik Duka (b. 1943), Czech, Archbishop Emeritus of Prague; Christoph Schönborn (b. 1945), Austrian, Archbishop of Vienna
Jacob Sprenger (also James, [1] 1436/1438 – 6 December 1495) was a Dominican inquisitor and theologian principally known for his association with a well-known guide for witch-hunters from 1486, Malleus Maleficarum.
The Dominican position was set forth about the same time by Báñez and seven of his brethren, each of whom presented a separate answer to the charges. But the presiding officer of the Inquisition desired these eight books to be reduced to one, and Báñez, together with Pedro Herrera and Diego Alvarez was instructed to do the work. About four ...
Nicholas Eymerich was born in Girona c. 1316. [1] He entered the local monastery of the Dominican Order on 4 August 1334. Here, during his novitiate he was instructed in theology by the friar Dalmau Moner.
Dominican Jean de Moulins, before becoming a cardinal in 1350, was the inquisitor of Toulouse from 1344 to 1348. Around 1330, the activity of the Dominican inquisition in the Kingdom of France significantly declined. In Languedoc, the Cathar sect was completely exterminated.
The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Prædicatorum, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán.