Anabaptists, 137
Ancona, 132
Andalucia, 78
anti-Semitism, 74–9 see also Jews; Judaism
Antisemite (bulletin), 218
Antonelli, Cardinal, 200
Aragón, 62, 78 ‘conversos’ in, 76
Aragón, King of, 12, 18
archaeology, 183–4
Ardennes, 100
Arduina, 100
Arnald-Amaury, Abbott of Cîteaux, 11–12, 13, 17
Arthur, King, 134
Ashtaroth, 100
Assisi, 53–4
Astarte, 100
Aughrim, battle of, 161
Austria, 161
auto de fe, 21–9, 36–7, 40, 51, 64, 66, 79, 80, 120 in Americas, 85–8
Jews, 132
in New Granada, 94–6
in Peru, 90–92
Avignon, Papacy at, 47, 191, 193
Bacon, Roger, 57
Balasuriya, Father Tissa, 246–7, 256
Balducci, Father Corrado, 283
Balsamo, Joseph (Count Cagliostro), 175–6
Baltic coast, 99
Bamberg, Prince-Bishop of, 120
Barcelona, 67, 79, 82 burning of heretics in, 66
Barcelona, Inquisitor of, 59
Benedict XI, Pope, 47
Benedict XII, Pope, 42–3
Benedict XIV, Pope, 168
Benedict XV, Pope, 217
Benigni, Monsignor Umberto, 216–19
Bermejo, Luis, 243
Béziers, sack of, 11–12
Bible translation, 124 King James Version, 124
Biblical Archaeology Review, 230
birth control, 236, 258, 286
Bismarck, 206
Bizzari, Cardinal Giuseppe, 203
blood, shedding of, 27–8, 34–5, 72–3
Boff, Father Leonardo, 243
Bogomils, 5, 43–4
Bogotá, 93
Bogotá, Archbishop of, 93
Bohemia, 46, 128, 136, 149, 160
Bohemia, Inquisitor of, 106–7
Bologna, 19
Bolsheviks, 218
Bonaventure, Saint, 57
Bordeaux, Archbishop of, 47
Bosch, Hieronymus, 45
Bosnia, 44
Boswell, 164
Boulin, Abbé, 219
Bourbons, 187
Boyne, battle of, 161
Braunsberg, 206
Brescia, 60
Brethren of the Free Spirit, 45–6, 152
bribery, 32
Brigit, 101
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 66, 67, 142, 147, 181
Bruce, Robert the, 53
Bruno, Giordano, 124, 139–40, 288
Buddhism, 5
Burgos, Bishop of, 76
Burgos, Cardinal Archbishop of, 131
burning of heretics, see heretics, burning of
Burroughs, William, 136
Byzantine Church, 5, 48
Cagliostro, Count (Joseph Balsamo), 175–6
Calvin, John, 126, 137
Campanella, Tommaso, 124, 138–9
Canary Islands, 83
canonisation, 253–4
Capuchin Order, 131
Caraffa, Giovanni (later Pope Paul IV), 129–32
Carbonaria, 188
Carcassonne, 12
Carcassonne, Inquisitor of, 42
Carmelites, 153
Cartagena, 93, 94–7
Casanova (di Seingalt), Giacomo Girolamo, 176–7
Castile, 62, 67, 69, 75 ‘conversos’ in, 76
Catalan, Arnold, 23
Cathars, 4–13, 15–18, 40, 41–3
Cernunnos, 100
Cervantes (Saavedra), Miguel de, 152
Chaldean Patriarch, 202–3
Chalker, Baroness, 258–9
Chanson de Roland, 27–8
Charles V, King of Spain, 94
Chicago, University of, 135
China, 128
Church corruption of, 8–9
Councils, 286
opposition to, 5
Cîteaux, Abbot of, 11
Città del sole, La (The City of the Sun) (Campanella), 139
Ciudad Réal, burning of heretics in, 66
Clare, Saint, 55
Clement V, Pope, 47
Clement XII, Pope, 166–7
Clermont, 1
Cloud of Unknowing, The (Anon.), 150–51
College of Cardinals, 234
Collins, Dr Paul, 238
Cologne, 106
Cologne, Archbishop of, 149
Cologne, University of, 105, 106
Cologne Declaration, 242
Colombia, 93
Columbus, Christopher, 83
Communists, 118
Como, Inquisitor of, 105
Congregation for the Causes of Saints, 254
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 264–5
Consejo de la Suprema y General Inquisición, 65
Constance, Council of, 46, 193–4, 195, 199
Constantine, Emperor, 40
contraceptives, 286
‘ conversos’, 75–6
Copernicus, Nicolas, 140
Corbally, Father Chris, 284
Córdoba, 82
Córdoba, Inquisitor of, 67
Correspondance de Rome, 217
corruption, 32 of Church, 8–9
Cortés, Hernán, 85
counter-Reformation, 125–36
Coustos, John, 170–4
Cromwell, Oliver, 120, 159
Crossing the Threshold of Hope (John Paul II), 272–3
Crucible, The (Miller), 118, 120
Crusades, 1–4 Albigensian, 11–13, 17, 40, 48, 49, 125
Curran, Father Charles, 243
Cyprus, 49
Danielou, Cardinal Jean, 231
Darwin, Charles, 182, 277
de Beauvoir, Simone, 223
de Castelnau, Pierre, 10, 17
de Charnay, Geoffroi, 51
de Espina, Alonso, 77
de Goth, Bertrand, 47
de Guzmán, Dominic, 14–19, 53, 55
de Molay, Jacques, 51
de Montfort, Simon, 11–13, 18, 21
de Paris, Guillaume, 50
de Sade, Marquis, 223
de Vaux, Father Roland, 227–31
Dead Sea Scrolls, 223–32 facsimile edition, 231
Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, The (Baigent and Leigh), 229
Dead Sea Scrolls and Primitive Christianity, The (Danielou), 231
Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, The (Eisenman and Wise), 232
del Tindaro, Cardinal Mariano Rampolla, 213
denunciation, 68–9
Derwentwater, Earl of, 162–3
Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 182
di Cavour, Camillo, 189
Diana (of the Nine Fires), 100
Diderot, Denis, 88, 162, 164, 181
Diplomatic Revolution, 165
disasters, natural, 102–3
Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (de Vaux), 228
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 114, 138
Dominican Order, 18–21, 125 founding of, 14–19
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 152
dos Santos, Lúcia, 266–74
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 66, 67, 142, 147, 181
Drake, John, 91
dreams, erotic, 103
du Gard, Roger Martin, 214
dualism, 5–6, 43–4
Dublin, 168
Dubovytsya, 278
Dupont-Sommer, André, 226
Eastern Orthodox Church, 210
Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian, The (Ratzinger), 245
Eckhart, Johannes, 148–50
Eco, Umberto, 22–3, 124
Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem, 224
ecumenism, 251–2
Edward II, King, 51–2
Eisenman, Professor Robert, 231–2
England, 41, 52, 159 Franciscans in, 57
mystics in, 150–1
witches in, 120
Erasmus of Rotterdam, 134
ERDS (Entente romaine de défense sociale), 218–19
Estonia, 99
ethnic cleansing, 63
‘Evil Eye’, 109
excommunication, 221–2
Fátima, secrets of, 266–74
Faust (Goethe), 138
Feast in the House of Levi, The (painting, Veronese), 132
feminism, 256–7
Ferdinand, King, 63–7, 77–8, 82
fines, 32
Firrao, Cardinal Joseph, 168
First Vatican Council, 201–5
Fitzgerald, Bishop Edward, 205
Flaubert, Gustave, 291
Florence, 166
Fogazzaro, Antonio, 214
Fornari, Cardinal, 277
Fournier, Jacques, 42–3
Fourth Lateran Council, 18
Fox, Father Matthew, 246
France, 27, 40, 159–61, 168
France, Inquisitor of, 50
Francis, Saint, 53–7
Franciscans, attacks on, 53–61
Franco’Prussian War, 190
François, Duke of Lorraine, 163, 168
Franklin, Benjamin, 164
Fraticelli brethren, 58
Frederick the Great, 163
‘free-thinking’, 88–9 in Peru, 92
Freemasonery, 162–80, 188 attacks on, 166–74
in Peru, 92
French Revolution, 81, 192
Friedrich II, Holy Roman Emperor, 28–9, 38
Frings, Cardinal, 237
Fuentes, Carlos, 79
Gaillot, Bishop Jacques, 246
Galileo, 124, 140–41, 288
Gallican Articles/Gallicanism, 194–5
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 188–91, 197
garrucha (pulley), 73
Gautier, Théophile, 186
Gebara, Ivone, 246
General Council, 193, 195, 199
Genet, Jean, 136
Geneva, Bishop of, 120
Geneva Bible, 124
Germany, 9, 38, 41, 160 mystics in, 149–50
witchcraft and, 105
Gervaso, Roberto, 176
Ghislieri, Michele (later Pope Pius V), 132
Gibraltar, 80
Gide, André, 179–80, 223
Giraud, Maximin, 275–6
Gnostic Gospels, 231–2
Gnostics, 5, 146, 148
Goebbels, Josef, 77
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 138, 164, 256
Granada, 64, 79 capture of, 63
Great Auto, in Mexico, 86–7
Greece, 184
Greek Orthodox Church, 5, 48, 218, 234
Green Man, 100, 102
Gregory I, Pope, 101–2
Gregory VII, Pope, 221
Gregory IX, Pope, 20–21
Gregory X, Pope, 22
Gregory XI, Pope, 47
Gregory XVI, Pope, 178, 196, 196
Groer, Cardinal, 264
Gui, Bernard, 22–3, 38–9, 44
Habsburgs, 187, 192, 205, 209
Hammer of Witches, see Malleus Maleficarum
Häring, Father Bernard, 243
Harrington, Earl of, 173
Hawkins, Sir John, 86
Hawkins, Richard, 92
Henry VIII, King, 137
heretics, burning of, 21–9, 36–7, 40, 51, 64, 66, 79, 120 in Americas, 85–8
Jews, 132
in New Granada, 94–6
in Peru, 90–92
Hermeticists/Hermeticism, 124, 134
Herne the Hunter, 100
Hexham and Newcastle, Bishop of, 263
Hinduism, 5
Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de Venise (Casanova), 177
Hider, Adolf, 131
Hogarth, William, 164
Holland, 152, 159, 163, 205
Holy Angels, 110
Holy Child of La Guardia, 78–9
Holy Office, 175, 209–19 founding of, 129
Holy Water, 110
Homer, 183–5
Honorius III, Pope, 18
Hopkins, Matthew (Witchfinder-General), 120
Hötzl, Alois, 198
Hunthausen, Archbishop, 243
Huntington Library, California, 231
Hus, Jan, 46, 134
Huxley, Thomas, 182
Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 114
Iberian Peninsula, 62–82, 83, 175
Iliad (Homer), 183
Illuminati, 151–2
‘illuminism’, 46
Immaculate Conception, 278 doctrine of, 199
In eminenti (Papal Bull), 167
incubi, 103
Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Pope Paul IV), 134
Index of Prohibited Books, 134–6, 222–3
indulgences, sale of, 46
infallibility, Papal, 196–208, 210, 286
informers, 30–31
Innocent III, Pope, 4, 10–11, 18, 48, 55
Innocent IV, Pope, 34
Innocent VIII, Pope, 104–5, 106
Inquisition inauguration of, 20–21
name change, 129, 215
origins of, 14–39
techniques of, 30–39
Inquisitor-General, creation of, 65
International Theological Commission, 240
Ireland, 263
Isabella, Queen, 62–3, 77–8 ‘conversos’ and, 76
Islamic fundamentalism, 257–8
Istigkeit, definition of, 149
Italy, 40, 163 unification of, 186–91
James II, King, 160–61
Japan, 128
Jaquerius, Nicholas, 104
Jenkins's Ear, War of, 96
Jerusalem, 2, 3
Jesuits (Society of Jesus), 126–36
Jesus, dispute over blood shed, 58–61
Jews, 74–9 burning of, 132
doctors, 199
in Gibraltar, 80 see also anti-Semitism: Judaism
John XXII, Pope, 44, 58
John XXIII, Pope, 233–6
John Paul II, Pope, 242, 247–8, 253–4, 259–61, 264–5, 270–72, 280, 284
Juan de la Cruz (John of the Cross), 157
Judaic Talmud, 134
Judaism, 234
Julian/Juliana, Mother (of Norwich), 150
Jung, C. G., 255, 265
jury system, 41
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 223
Knights Templar, 127 destruction of, 47–53
knowledge, role of, 124, 148
Knox, John, 137
Kramer, Heinrich, 106–7
Küng, Hans, 194, 242, 247
La Salette, Virgin of, 275–77
La Suprema, 72
Labouré, Catherine, 274–5
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy, 42
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence), 136, 223
Lafcadio's Adventures (Gide), 179–80
Lagarde, John of, 24
Lagrange, Father Albert, 224–5
Languedoc, 13, 49
Last Judgement, The (painting, Michelangelo), 130
Last Temptation, The (Kazantzakis), 223
Lateran Council, Fourth, 18
Lateran Treaty, 208, 219
Latvia, 99
Lawrence, D. H., 136, 223
le Petit, Robert, 29
learning, role of, 124, 148
Leicester, Earl of, 11–13
Leiria, Bishop of, 269–70
Leo XII, Pope, 178
Leo XIII, Pope, 178–9, 208, 212, 224–5
Leon-Dufour, Xavier, 230–31
León, 62
Lewis, Matthew, 174, 181
Life of Jesus (Vie de Jésus, La), (Renan), 185–6, 277
Lima, Peru, 90–3
Lithuania, 99
Loisy, Alfred, 211–13, 222
Lolita (Nabokov), 136, 223
Londonderry, siege of, 160 –1
Lorraine, François, Duke of, 163, 168
Louis VIII, King, 13
Louis XIII, King, 160
Louis XI
V, King (Sun King), 80, 160
Louis XV, 163
Lourdes, 278
Loyola, Ignatius, 126–7, 129
Lucifer, 102, 122–3
Ludwig II, King, 198
Luther, Martin, 119, 123–4, 126, 134, 137
McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 118
McEnroy, Carmel, 246
madness, 103
Madrid, 169
Magenta, battle of, 189
Malachi, Saint, 280–81
Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches), 107–18
Mallorca, 69, 83
Malta, Knights of, 176
Manichaeanism, 5
Mann, Thomas, 223
Marburg, Conrad of, 37–8
Marlowe, Christopher, 114, 138
Márquez, Gabriel Garcia, 96–7
martyrdom, 35–6
Marx, Karl, 182
Mary veneration of, 253–62
visions of, 263–81
mass madness, spread of, 118–20
Mathieu, Mélanie, 275–6
Maximus, Emperor, 26
Mazarin, Jules, 192
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 188, 197
medicine, 199
Medjugorje, 279
Merlin, 134
Merry del Val, Cardinal Rafael, 212–13, 215–17, 237
Messori, Vittorio, 271
Mexico, tribunal of, 85–90
Michelangelo, 130
midwives, 111
Milice de Christ (soldier of Christ), 126
Miller, Arthur, 118, 120
Miller, Henry, 136
Mirepoix, Bishop of, 42–3
misogyny, 106, 110–11, 120–21
Modena, University of, 131
Modernist Movement, 210–17, 224–5
Monk, The (Lewis), 174, 181
Montaillou, 13, 42
Montaillou (Ladurie), 42
Montesquieu, 162, 164
Montini, Giovanni Battista (later Pope Paul VI), 216, 223, 235, 238, 270, 271
Montpellier, 14–15
Montségur, 13
Montserrat, 126
Mountbatten, Earl, 180
Murat, Marshal Joachim, 81, 187
Muret, Battle of, 12, 18
Musil, Robert, 209
Muslims, Iberian Peninsula and, 62
Mussolini, Benito, 208, 219
mystics, fear of, 142–57
Nabokov, Vladimir, 136, 223
Name of the Rose, The (Eco), 23, 30, 124
Naples, 189
Napoleon, 81, 89, 178, 187
Napoleon III, 189, 190, 205, 207
Narbonne, 12
Narbonne, Archbishop of, 9
Nature, as concept, 121
New Granada, 93–7
New World, see Americas
Newcastle, Duke of, 173
newspapers, 196
Nicea, Council of, 250
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 186
Nostradamus, 280
Nun, The (Diderot), 181
‘Outremer’, 3
Odyssey (Homer), 183
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