Midterm terms 2

Question 1

St Augustine of Hippo

Answer 1

354-430 AD, One of the fathers of the church. Developed the ideas of diabolical roots of superstition including pacts with the devil

Question 2

Gratian

Answer 2

Bolognese Monk who in 1140 published ecclesiastical laws including the episcopi which was a church decree describing phenomena of people claiming that saw witches flying at night with Diana

Question 3

Pope Lucias III

Answer 3

Issues Bull “Ad Abolendom” which condemns the Cathars and the Waldensians as heretics. Calls on the secular courts to prosecute them. Lives from 1198-1216 AD.

Question 4

Pope Innocent III

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Equates herecy with high treason and promotes crusades against the the cathars. lives from 1225-1274 AD.

Question 5

St Thomas Acquinas

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Domincan Friar who lived from 1225-1274 AD. The most important philosopher of scholasticism and the outher of the Summa Theologia.

Question 6

Pope Gregory IX

Answer 6

Appoints the first inquisitors mostly from the dominican order to prosecute heretics in 1232

Question 7

Bernardo Gui

Answer 7

Dominican inquisitor who wrote “practice officii” which gives instructions on dealing with heretics in 1323

Question 8

Pope John XXII

Answer 8

in 1326 he condemns magic as demonic and gives inquisitors jurisdiction over it

Question 9

Nicolau Eymeric

Answer 9

Inquisitor General of the kingdom of aragon. He wrote the Direcorium Inquisitorom which was a handbook for inquisitors on dealing with heretics in 1376

Question 10

St Bernardino

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Franscican friar who in 1427 gave speaches about growing sects of heretical witches. Was one of the most famous preachers of the time.

Question 11

Johannes Nider

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Dominican Friar who authored teh Formicaries which gives witches there commno description in 1436

Question 12

Pope Innocent VIII

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Issues Bull Summis Desiderantes which gives inquisitors more power to hunt witches

Question 13

Ulrich Molitor

Answer 13

Publishes De Lamiis et pythonicis Mulieribus talking about how beliefs against witches were unqualified. lawyer in austria.

Question 14

1216

Answer 14

Dominican order officially recognized by the church

Question 15

1347-1348

Answer 15

Great Plague

Question 16

1208

Answer 16

Innocent III’s crusade against the Cathars

Question 17

1215

Answer 17

Innocent III convenes the 4th lateran council which creates special commissions for every parish to investigate presence of heretics

Question 18

1209

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Frasiscan order founded

Question 19

Episcopi

Answer 19

10th century decree describing witches and Diana by Gratian

Question 20

Ad Abolendam

Answer 20

Decree by Pope Lucius III condemning the cathars and Walensians in 1184

Question 21

Summa Theologiea

Answer 21

Writing by St Thomas Acquinas, fundemental christian text, explains magic as based on pacts with demons

Question 22

Practica Officii Inquisitious

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handbook for prosecuting herecy by bernardo gui in 1323

Question 23

Super Illius Specula

Answer 23

Bull by Pope John XXII condemning magic as demonic and giving inquisitors jurisdiction over it in 1326

Question 24

Directorium Inquistorium

Answer 24

handbook for inquisitors in 1376 by Nicaou eymeric, states that all magic is heretical

Question 25

Formicarius

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Treaty that gives descriptions of witches by Johannes Nider in 1436

Question 26

Summas desiderantes

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Byll by Pope innocent III giving more power to inquisitors in 1484

Question 27

Malleus Maleficarum

Answer 27

1486 book about witchcraft by Kramer

Question 28

De Lamiis et Dynanicus Mulicibus

Answer 28

book by Ulrich Molitor in 1489 debunking witch claims