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Agen, France, 45
Age of Anxiety, The (Johnson), 254
Albi, France, 34, 45–46, 87, 89
Albigensian Crusade, 45–51, 54, 59, 63, 87, 245
Alderigo of Verona, 86–87
Alexander III, Pope, 58
Alexander IV, Pope, 83, 112
Alexius, St., 29
Amalric, Arnauld, 17, 48, 49
Amiel de Perles, 86 anti-Semitism, 194; Antichrist and, 170; in England, 170; in European civilization, 169, 173, 174, 194, 220–21; execution of Jesus blamed on Jews, 169; in France, 168; McCarthyism and, 250; in Nazi Germany, 220–21; Nuremburg Laws, 219, 221; in Roman Catholic Church, 167, 168, 170–71; in Spanish Inquisition, 167–75, 194–96; in Stalinist Russia, 227, 236–38
Antwerp, Belgium, 27
apologists, for Inquisition, 15–17, 53, 74, 82–83, 97, 114–15, 190–91, 209–13
Applebaum, Anne, 235, 238–39
Aragón, Spain, 103, 176, 179, 184, 188
Arbués, Pedro, 179–80
Arëfast, 19–20
Arendt, Hannah, 238
Armstrong, Karen, 45
Assalir, Arnaud, 17
auto-da-fé, 5, 8, 9, 84–86, 128, 125–32; bag of gunpowder hung around the neck at, 200; beards burned off victims, 200; of Beguines, 137; bungling of, 128–29; burning of Marguerite Porete, 137, 141; of Cathars, 131–32; conducted by Gui, 86; in Córdoba, 193; executioners, 199; expense report, 130, 130n; first in New World, 180; gagging device (mute’s bridle), 128; garroting and, 200; to inspire terror, 126; of Jews, 177–78; of Knights Templar, 144; in Madrid, 56, 196; preparation of victims, 127; Protestants burned, 184; public display of true belief at, 129; as public spectacle, 85–86, 126–27, 197–202; in Seville, 177–78, 189; of Spanish Inquisition, 196–202; of spirituali (Spirituals), 136; symbolic, 204; in Toledo, 184; victims dressed for, 197
Bacon, Roger, 151
badges: cross of infamy, 85, 86, 115–17, 125, 131; iconography of, 116; Jews required to wear, 171, 222, 225; removal, 116; Spanish Inquisition, 199
Baer, Yitzhak, 193
Balsamo, Pietro, 114–15
Barr, Bob, 256n
Barstow, Anne Llewellyn, 152, 154
Beghards, 137, 138
Beguines, 136, 137–38
Beinart, Haim, 193
Bela, Nicolas, 248
Bellarmine, Robert Cardinal, 68, 146, 161, 162, 163, 247
Benedictine order, 139
Benedict XII, Pope (James Fournier), 79
Benedict XVI, Pope (Joseph Ratzinger), 5, 208
Berkeley, Martin, 249
Bernard de Caux, 76
Bernard of Clairvaux, St., 33, 38, 43, 45, 52, 139
Besançon, France, 57
Béziers, France, 48–49
Bible: painting depicting scene from, 160; permission to read, 160; in vernacular, 28, 30, 183–84, 212, 242
Bilbao, Spain, 184
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 160
Bogomils, 31–34, 35, 39, 158
Bologna, Italy: right to bear arms in, 91
book banning and burning, 160, 161, 163, 168, 183, 184, 185, 187, 208, 210, 223
Bram, France, 49
Brecht, Bertolt, 133, 251–52
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoyevsky), 6, 60, 98
Brown Book of the Hitler Terror, The, 217
Bruno, Giordano, 128, 162, 164
Bukharin, Nikolai, 229, 232–33
Bulgars, 33–34. See also Cathars
Burman, Edward, 63, 69, 85, 106, 137, 154, 208
burning at the stake. See auto-da-fé
Cantor, Norman F., 213–14
Carcassonne, France, 80–81, 87, 99, 116, 122, 139
Cardoza, Benjamin, 180
Carmelite order, 145
Cathars, 4–5, 34–43, 44, 51–52, 54, 58, 62, 71, 102, 118, 121, 124–25, 133–34, 169, 176, 184, 229; “bugger” and, 12, 34, 41; burning of, 49–50, 56, 86, 131–32; consolamentum, 36, 38, 42, 46, 103, 134, 134n; defamation and slander, 34, 40, 42, 230; endura, 38, 42, 86; escape from Inquisition, 91; extermination, 51–52, 134, 138; fortress of Montségur, 42, 51–52, 131–32, 134n; French towns and, 34, 45–46, 48, 49; Holy Grail and, 42, 140; motive for persecution of, 39–40; osculum insabbatati, 36; other names for, 33–34; perfecti, 36–37, 38, 41–42, 43, 44, 46, 51–52, 65, 133–34, 247
Cerularius, Michael, 23
Cervantes, Miguel de, 187
Chaplin, Charlie, 248
Charles II, King of Spain, 196, 199, 201
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 186, 211
Charles VII, King of France, 155, 156, 207
Cheese and the Worms, The (Ginzburg), 211–12
children: blood libel and, 170; disinherited or fined, 11, 118, 119, 120, 121, 234; extermination, Nazi Germany, 13, 218, 220, 222, 223, 226; as informants, 234; testimony of, 80; torture of, 76, 107, 111; as victims, Crusades, 23, 172; as victims, Inquisition, 3, 9, 14, 18, 43, 48, 76, 131, 200, 201, 202, 205, 209; Witch Craze and, 153, 188, 245, 246
Christian church, early, 12, 41, 54, 94
Cistercian order, 43, 47, 48
Clement V, Pope, 99, 139, 142–43, 143n
Cohn, Norman, 11, 34, 141, 142, 151, 154
Columbus, Christopher, 180–81, 192n
confession, 14–15, 70, 81, 95–101; abiuro (I recant), 108; of condemned heretics, 127–28, 200; of Gagliardi Fardi, 136; naming names required, 14–15, 70–71, 96, 178, 189, 189n, 212, 239; ordeal by water or fire used, 102–3; ordeal of Elvira del Campo, 210; penances following, 127; public, 113–14; Stalinist Russia show trials and, 229–30; under torture, 11, 81, 95–103, 110, 112, 145, 236; withdrawal of, 112, 144
Conquest, Robert, 231
Conrad o
f Marburg, 58–60, 67
Constance, Queen of France, 20, 21
Copernicus, 161, 162
Córdoba, Spain, 193
coroza, 8–9, 197, 198, 200, 256
Corsica, 91
Cory, Giles, 244–45, 246
Cory, Martha, 244
Coulton, G. G., 10, 17, 126, 210, 214–15
Council of Béziers (1246), 70
Council of Toulouse (1229), 63
Crucible, The (Miller), 241, 244, 252, 254
Crusades, 29, 31, 49, 61, 139, 172–73; Albigensian, 45–50, 58, 60–61, 63; joining in lieu of imprisonment, 115, 116; Knights Templar in, 139; spiritual rewards for crusaders, 45, 48 culture wars, 160–66, 186–89
Daniel, book of, 31
Dante Alighieri, 160
Darkness at Noon (Koestler), 92, 231–32
D’Ascou, Gentille, 38
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon), 53
defamation and slander: “blood libel,” 170, 171, 179, 223; against Bogomils, 32–33; cannibalism charge, 19, 20, 32; of Cathars, 34, 40, 42; against cult of Orléans, 19, 20; as device to dehumanize victims, 5, 11–13, 40, 43; Devil worship charge, 40, 58, 149–50; incestuous orgy and sexual excess, 12, 19, 20, 32, 33, 60, 136–37, 142, 148, 149; infanticide charge, 19, 20, 32, 149, 150; of Jews, 170–71; of Knights Templar, 12, 141–42; papal bull, Vox in rama, 60; sodomy charge, 34; taken from Romans, 41; of Waldensians, 134; as weapon against diversity, 41
dehumanizing of victims: in Inquisition, 5, 11–13, 40, 43, 87, 113, 130, 170, 226, 233; in Nazi Germany, 13, 220, 226–27; in Stalinist Russia, 230, 233
Deism, 204
de la Barthe, Angela, 145
de León, Luis, 191–92
Délicieux, Bernard, 79
de Molay, Jacques, 140
de Montfort, Simon, 49, 50–51
denunciatio, 73
de Páramo, Luis, 53
de Sade, Marquis, 33, 148
de Santillana, Giorgio, 164, 209, 247
Devil and the Jews, The (Trachtenberg), 168
Devil in Massachusetts, The (Starkey), 245
Devil/Satan, 47; black cats and, 11, 40, 142, 149; black Sabbath, 151; in Cathars’ Genesis, 35–36; “devil’s grease,” 150; Devil’s mark, 149, 154; dualism and, 31–32, 35; heretics and, 5, 13; Jews and, 171; Joan of Arc and, 155, 156; Knights Templar and, 142; “obscene kiss,” 149, 150; “Rendezvous of Devils” in Salem, 246, 254; sex with, 12, 145, 150; witches and, 145, 148, 149–50, 153
Dialogue Concerning the Two World System (Galileo), 163
Disraeli, Benjamin, 180, 180n
Dominic, Arnold, 88
Dominic, St., 45, 52
Dominicans, 28, 30, 43–44; burning of Jews, 168; as hounds of God, 65; as inquisitors, 3, 4, 29, 52, 60, 63, 64–68, 88, 89, 122, 158; Pietro Balsama joins, 114; Torquemada, 176, 179; witch manual, 146–47; as witnesses, 77
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 187
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 6, 60
Douglas, Melvyn, 250
dualism, 31–32, 34, 35, 39, 62
Dworkin, Andrea, 154
Eastern Orthodox Church, 5n, 22–23, 61
Eckhart, Meister, 57
Eichmann, Adolf, 215–16, 218
England, 17; anti-Semitism, 170, 241–42; ballad, 202;; Englishmen in Spanish Inquisition, 184, 241; executions, 242; Joan of Arc and, 156; Knights Templar in, 24; lack of Inquisition in, 57, 156; Lollards persecuted, 242; torture, 242, 244–45; Witch Craze, 242
episcopal inquisition, 57, 60
Erasmus, 160
Eternal Jew, The (film), 223
Europe’s Inner Demons (Cohn), 142
Eymerich, Nicholas, 79–80, 92, 103, 110, 111, 145, 151, 176, 190
fama, 73, 153, 246
Fardi, Gagliardi, 136
fautorship, crime of fautor, 62, 69, 70–71, 72, 80, 92, 96, 99, 124, 178
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, 14, 55, 166, 169, 177–84, 196
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 204, 205
Flanders, Belgium, 58
Florence, Italy, 89, 91–92, 119, 120, 130
folk traditions, 25–26, 150–51, 152, 155
Fortescue, Sir John, 66
Fourth Lateran Council, 24, 61–62, 63, 219, 255
France: Albigensian Crusade, 45–50; burning of Jews, 168, 171; Cathars in, 34–50; Enlightenment and French Revolution, 203; forfeited property in, 121; Inquisition begins, 3; Joan of Arc, 154–59; secular government’s use of Inquisition, 45–50, 55, 58, 60–61, 63, 142–43, 154–59, 233
Franciscans, 28, 30, 43–44; book banning and burning, 160; Brother Mascar of Padua, 122; corruption, 122; as inquisitors, 3, 29, 52, 60, 63, 64–68, 91, 122; persecutions of renegade priests, 54; spirituali, 135–36
Francis of Assisi, 28, 30, 52
Fraticelli, 137
Frederick II, King, 158
Freemasonry, 185, 208, 215
Free Spirit cult, 11, 136–37
gagging device (mute’s bridle), 128
Galileo (Brecht), 251
Galileo Galilei, 6, 10, 133, 161–66, 208, 210
Garric, Guillem, 99
Genesis, 13, 35
Germany: anti-Semitism, 171–73; death toll, Witch Craze, 154; lack of Inquisition in, 211; Protestant Reformation, 159, 160
Germany, Nazi (Third Reich), 209, 215–28; Auschwitz, 3, 13, 15, 214; burning beards of Jews, 227; corpses as source of revenue, 224; death toll, 214, 218, 226; euphemisms, 217–18; “Final Solution,” 9, 218, 224; “first sketch of the Inquisition” and, 61; Gestapo, 216, 236; Holocaust, 6, 170, 219–20, 226; as inquisitors, 214; “Jew badge,” 222, 225; looting of victim’s property, 119, 223, 224; machinery of persecution, 15; murder without law, 227–28; Night of the Long Knives, 228; Nuremburg Laws, 218, 221, 224; persecutions of non-Jews, 215–28, 237; pogrom, 223; purity of blood, 15, 194, 219–20, 221, 238; record-keeping, 217; torture, 216–17, 218; trial of van der Lubbe, 228n; victims naming names, 217; Zyklon B, 13, 220, 225, 226
Gibbon, Edward, 7, 53
Ginzburg, Carlo, 211–12
Gitlitz, David M., 194, 225
gnostics, 31, 35, 57, 141
Goebbels, Joseph, 220, 221, 227, 237
Goya, Francisco, 6, 187
Great Terror, The (Conquest), 231
Greene, Graham, 13
Gregory VII, Pope, 28, 29
Gregory IX, Pope, 58, 60, 63, 64, 68, 168
Gregory XIII, Pope, 170–71
Grienberger, Christophe, 162
Grimm, Jacob, 151
Gui, Bernard, 8, 9, 65–66, 69, 75–76, 86, 97, 99, 112, 131, 137, 138, 146, 151, 167
Guzmán, Domingo de, 28, 30, 44, 52
Hammer of Heretics, 67, 68, 146, 161, 247
Hammer of Witches (Kramer and Sprenger), 146–47, 153
Hammett, Dashiell, 250
Hartmann, Johann, 136–37
Hayden, Sterling, 249
Held, Robert, 128
Hellman, Lillian, 248, 249
Henry II of Seyn, Count, 59
Henry the Monk, 27, 28, 29, 33, 43
Henry VI, Part I (Shakespeare), 156
heresy, 2, 8, 9, 10, 13, 25–26, 213; in America, 243; children accused, 76; complicity with, 75 (see also fautorship); confession of, 14, 95–101; difficulty in determining, 22–26; in England, 241–42; evidence of, 73, 74, 76, 95, 103, 153; invention of new, 11, 135, 136; Judaizing, 177, 193, 198; relapse of, 78; as thought-crime, 21, 146, 191–92, 205, 209, 238. See also specific heresies
heretics, 6, 9–13, 135, 136; “abandoned” or “relaxed” to secular authorities, 63, 64, 85, 86, 102, 114, 125–26, 196; accusations against, 10, 78–81, 86–87, 96–97; charges against the dead, 10, 86–87, 119, 120, 178; dehumanizing of, 5, 11–13, 40, 43, 87, 113; evidence against, 73, 76, 95; fautorship and, 62, 69, 70–71, 72; fear of betrayal by, 71; first burning of, 214; Fourth Lateran Council and, 62; gagging device, 128; as “heretical depravity,” 71; as “heretical filth,” 62, 87, 129–30, 137, 176, 214, 219, 226, 230; interro
gation of, 65, 71, 74–78; lack of appeal right, 83; Popes’ labeling of, 12–13; “poverty fanatics” as, 136; public confession, 113–14; public display of true belief at burning, 129; punishments (see punishments); relapsed, 89, 158; release, 83; search for and greed, 121; self-confessed, penitents, 85, 127–28 (see also confession); text as, 10, 168; as “traitors to God,” 113, 130, 226, 230. See also specific heretics
Herzl, Theodor, 215
Himmler, Heinrich, 216, 218
History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (Lea), 1
Hitler, Adolf, 6, 218–20, 225–26, 227–28, 236
Holy Grail, 42, 140
Honorius III, Pope, 158
Hosea, 40–41
Huss, John, 128–29, 130
Imbert, Guillame, 141
indulgences, 24, 63, 68, 73, 84, 86
informants and spies, 19–20, 69, 70, 71; McCarthyism and, 248; murder of, 88; Nazi Germany, 217; Stalinist Russia, 234; U. S., 257–58
Innocent III, Pope, 24, 52, 238, 247; Albigensian Crusade, 45–50, 58, 60–61, 63; anti-Semitism, 170; banning of ordeal, 102; burning of heretics and, 63; condemnation of Cathars, 45; on heresy, 13; on heretics, 12; legatine inquisition and, 58–60; origins of the Inquisition and, 52, 60–63
Innocent IV, Pope, 12–13, 119; sanctions torture and burning, 89, 94, 102
Innocent VIII, Pope, 145–46, 147
inquisitio, 57, 60, 73–74, 152; inquisitio generalis (dragnet operation), 72, 84
Inquisition: apparatus for, 54; authoritarianism and, 23, 132, 143, 160, 209, 233; avarice and, 42–43, 47, 55, 72, 121; bureaucracy, 67, 69, 71–72; Council of Béziers and secret police, 70; as culture wars, 160–66, 186–89; current status, 208; daring idea of, 213; death toll, 17, 131; dehumanizing victim and, 5, 11–13, 40, 43, 87, 113, 170; ending of, 202–5; euphemisms, 97–98; famous victims, 6, 10, 128, 130, 133, 154–59, 161–66, 207–8; fear, use of, 8, 87, 94, 97, 126; financing, 135, 223; first victims, 4–5; grandiose ambitions, 55; Holy Office of Inquisition into Heretical Depravity, 52, 54; as lawful, 3, 16, 56, 72–86, 94, 111, 112, 122, 212; as law unto itself, 116; lawyers for, 79–80; legatine inquisition, 58–60; link with modern crimes against humanity, 3, 6, 9, 13, 15, 233 (see also Germany, Nazi (Third Reich); Russia, Stalinist; United States); machinery of persecution and, 61, 82, 89–90, 135, 213, 236; motives for, 4, 39–40, 42–43, 47, 55, 138; official seal, motto of, 3, 199; operating expenses, 119–22; origins, 4, 43–44, 52, 56–64; parodies, 4; police power, 89, 91–92; process, from opening sermon to execution, 68–86; revisionist histories, 7–8, 16, 54, 74, 207, 209, 211, 213; secrecy, 3, 8, 65, 69, 73–74, 77, 78–79, 80, 84, 112–13, 210; secular government’s use of, 45–50, 55, 58, 60–61, 63, 142–43, 154–59, 185–89, 233; self-preservation of, 135, 138; sermo generalis, 68–69; as spiritual benefactor, 64; support staff, 8, 53–54, 69, 77, 80, 130; three phases, 5, 54; transcripts, ledgers, manuals, and treatises, 6, 7, 8, 17, 46–47, 54, 56, 71–72, 75–76, 77, 89, 103–4, 130, 131, 143n, 157, 212; uniformity, continuity, and ubiquity, 56, 91; verdict of history, 7, 207–15; witches as target, 146–54; years in operation, 3, 6, 56, 64