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.