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Between 1000 and 1250, the Catholic Church confronted the threat of heresy with increasing force. Some of the most portentous events in medieval history -- the Cathar crusade, the persecution and mass burnings of heretics, the papal inquisition established to identify and suppress beliefs that departed from the true religion -- date from this period. Fear of heresy molded European society for the rest of the Middle Ages and beyond, and violent persecutions...
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This book describes the trial (which lasted until 1314), and covers the initial confessions of the brothers under torture, their subsequent attempts to defend themselves, and the final repression. Its argument extends beyond the Templars themselves, and examines the significance of the affair in relations between the French monarchy and the papacy. [Back cover].
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Translation based on the Latin text of the trial found in the edition of Pierre Champion, Procès de condamnation de Jeanne d'Arc (Paris, 1920). Includes information on accusations against Joan, Saint Catherine, Charles VII, legal procedure, Saint Margaret, Joan's clothing, alleged cursing, escape, fabrications, hair, horse, idolatry, illness, prophecies, relapse, retrial, alleged sorcery, superstition, voices, weapons, wounds, etc.
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Galileo's scientific work which led him into a quarrel with the church.
"Re-creates for the first time the full drama of Galileo's ill-starred encounter with the Inquisition. Publication of Galileo's monumental treatise, Dialogue on the Great World Systems, aroused a bitter controversy between the old science of Ptolemy and the radical teachings of Copernicus in seventeenth-century Italy, a controversy of profound religious and political import....
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