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Page 271
... Inquisition seldom itself pronounced or performed the actual execu- tion of those it condemned . By a legal fic- tion , begun in 1231 , it surrendered or " re- laxed " the heretic to the appropriate civil authority , making a great show ...
... Inquisition seldom itself pronounced or performed the actual execu- tion of those it condemned . By a legal fic- tion , begun in 1231 , it surrendered or " re- laxed " the heretic to the appropriate civil authority , making a great show ...
Page 272
... Inquisition was active in hunting witches as heretics , not merely in 1326 and 1330 at Toulouse and Nar- bonne , but regularly thereafter . In 1451 Pope Nicholas V allowed the Inquisition control over sorcery even when heresy was not ...
... Inquisition was active in hunting witches as heretics , not merely in 1326 and 1330 at Toulouse and Nar- bonne , but regularly thereafter . In 1451 Pope Nicholas V allowed the Inquisition control over sorcery even when heresy was not ...
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... inquisitors worked under the strict observance of the Suprema , the supreme policy - making body of the Spanish Inquisition , which as late as 1568 reproved an inquisitor for imposing a fine for the recital of charms to cure sickness ...
... inquisitors worked under the strict observance of the Suprema , the supreme policy - making body of the Spanish Inquisition , which as late as 1568 reproved an inquisitor for imposing a fine for the recital of charms to cure sickness ...
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