Chapter II: Preface: v

PART I

HERESY

CHAP.

I. ORIGINS OF MEDIÆVAL HERESY 1

II. WALDENSES AND CATHARI 14

III. ‘THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL’ 34

IV. AVERRHOÏST INFLUENCES 55

V. REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
AND THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE 77

VI. THE MAGIC ARTS 105

PART II

THE INQUISITION

I. ATTITUDE OF THE CHURCH TOWARDS HERESY PRIOR
TO THE INSTITUTION OF THE INQUISITION 123

II. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE INQUISITION 140

III. THE SPREAD OF THE INQUISITION THROUGH EUROPE 159

IV. THE COMPOSITION AND PROCEDURE OF THE TRIBUNAL 178

V. INQUISITORIAL PENALTIES 206

VI. CONCLUSION 229

NOTE ON AUTHORITIES 244

INDEX 255

MEDIÆVAL HERESY AND THE INQUISITION