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The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual

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by Jonathan Kirsch


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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

 

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