Midterm Terms Flashcards
354-430 AD
Life of St. Augustine of Hippo. The most important of the Church Fathers. He devloped a theory on the diabolical root of all superstitions including pacts with demons.
1140
Bolognese monk Gratian publishes collection of ecclesiastical laws (the Decretum). this includes Episcopi, 10th century decree of the church which explains the stories from women who believe they can fly at night with the goddess Diana as illusions created by the devil.
1184
Pope Lucius III issues decretal “Ad Abolendam” which condems Cathars and Waldensians as heretics. Calls on secular courts to punish them.
1198-1216
Pontificate of Innocent III. He equeates herecy with crime of high treason. He promotes albigensian crusage against the cathers of southern france. He convened the Fourth Lateran Council.
1199
Pope Innocent III equates heresy with high treason in the decretal Vergentis
1208
Pope Innocent III promotes the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of southern france
1215
Pope Innocent IIIconvenes the Fourth Lateran Council where special commissions are created for every parish to investigate heretics
1209
Franciscan order founded during pontificate of Innocent III
1216
The dominican order is officially recognized
1225-1274
Life of St Thomas Aquinas. Dominican friar, most important philosopher of Scholasticism. Author of Summa Theologica.
1232
Pope Gregory IX appoints the first inquisitors as special judges to try heretics. they mostly come from the dominican order.
1323
Dominican Inquisitor Bernardo Gui writes the Practica Officii Inquisitionis. the handbook for prosecution of heresy. in france lepers are segregated into asylums and the jews are persecuted and expelled on charges of poisoning wells and spreading diseases.
1326
Pope John XXII condemns demonic magic with his bill “super illius specula”
1347-48
Great Plague kills one third of population in Europe. Jews accused of spreading the plague among others.
1376
Inquisitor General of the kingdom of Aragon Nicolau Eymeric writes Directorium Inuisitorum, handbook for inquisitors. This states that all magic is heretical and should be prosecuted by inquisitors.
1427
St. Bernardino of Siena the Franciscan friar, most famous preacher of the time, includes warnings in his writings about a new sect of witches that defile christian sacraments.
1436
German Dominican Johannes Nider writes the Formicarius. First treaty that gives witches they now common description.
1484
Pope Innocent VIII issues the bull “Summis Desiderantes” giving help to repression of witchcraft in Germany to Dominican inquisitors Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger
1486
first printed edition of Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer. Most influental texts on witchcraft and witch-hunting. highly plagarized.
1489
Austrian Lawyer Ulrich Moliter publishes De laniis et pythonicis mulieribus which is an authroitative statement against unqualified belief in witchcraft and the first printed book on witchcraft to include pictures.
Augustine of Hippo
Most important of the Church Fathers. Lived 354-430 AD. He developed a theory on the diabolical root of all superstition including a pact with demons
Gratian
Bolognese monk Gratian publishes collection of ecclesiastical laws (the Decretum). this includes Episcopi, 10th century decree of the church which explains the stories from women who believe they can fly at night with the goddess Diana as illusions created by the devil.
The Decretum
Collection of ecclesiastical laws published by monk Gratian. includes Episcopi. 10th century decree of the church which explains the stories from women who believe they can fly at night with the goddess Diana as illusions created by the devil.
Episcopi
10th century decree of the church and monk Gratian which explains the stories from women who believe they can fly at night with the goddess Diana as illusions created by the devil.
Pope Lucius III
Pope Lucius III issues decretal “Ad Abolendam” which condems Cathars and Waldensians as heretics. Calls on secular courts to punish them.
Ad Abolendam
Pope Lucius III issues decretal “Ad Abolendam” which condems Cathars and Waldensians as heretics. Calls on secular courts to punish them.
Innocent III
Pontificate of Innocent III. He equates heresy with crime of high treason. He promotes albigensian crusade against the cathers of southern france. He convened the Fourth Lateran Council.
st Thomas Aquinas
Dominican friar, most important philosopher of Scholasticism. Autheor of Summa Theologica.
Summa Theologica
written by dominican friar st Thomas Aquinas
Pope Gregory IX
appoints the first inquisitors as special judges to try heretics. they mostly come from the dominican order.
Bernardo Gui
Dominican Inquisitor Bernardo Gui writes the Practica Officii Inquisitionis. the handbook for prosecution of heresy. in france lepers are segregated into asylums and the jews are persecuted and expelled on charges of poisoning wells and spreading diseases.
Practica Officii Inquisitionis
handbook for prosecution of heresy. in france lepers are segregated into asylums and the jews are persecuted and expelled on charges of poisoning wells and spreading diseases.
Pope John XXII
condemns demonic magic with his bill “super illius specula”
Super Illius Specula
Pope John XIII condemns demonic magic with his bill
Nicolau Eymeric
Inquisitor General of the kingdom of Aragon writes Directorium Inuisitorum, handbook for inquisitors. This states that all magic is heretical and should be prosecuted by inquisitors.
Directorium Inquisitorum
written by Inquisitor General of the kingdom of Aragon. handbook for inquisitors. This states that all magic is heretical and should be prosecuted by inquisitors.
St Bernardino of Siena
St. Bernardino of Siena the Franciscan friar, most famous preacher of the time, includes warnings in his writings about a new sect of witches that defile christian sacraments.
Johannes Nider
German Dominican Johannes Nider writes the Formicarius. First treaty that gives witches they now common description
Formicarius
First treaty that gives witches they now common description by german dominican johannes nider
Pope Innocent VIII
Pope Innocent VIII issues the bull “Summis Desiderantes” giving help to repression of witchcraft in Germany to Dominican inquisitors Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger
Summis Desiderantes
Pope Innocent VII gives help to repression of witchcraft in Germany to Dominican inquisitors Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger
Malleus Maleficarum
by Heinrich Kramer. Most influental texts on witchcraft and witch-hunting. highly plagarized.
Ulrich Molitor
Austrian Lawyer Ulrich Moliter publishes De laniis et pythonicis mulieribus which is an authoritative statement against unqualified belief in witchcraft and the first printed book on witchcraft to include pictures.
De Lamiis et Pythonicis Mulieribus
Austrian Lawyer Ulrich Moliter publishes De laniis et pythonicis mulieribus which is an authoritative statement against unqualified belief in witchcraft and the first printed book on witchcraft to include pictures.
