Inquisition in the Fourteenth Century: The Manuals of Bernard Gui and Nicholas Eymerich

266 Pages·2019·27.94 MB·English

by  Derek Hill

Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages
Volume 7
Inquisition in the Fourteenth Century
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Inquisition in the Fourteenth
Century
The Manuals of Bernard Gui
and Nicholas Eymerich
Derek Hill
YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS
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To Valerie, Penelope and Elizabeth.
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Contents
Acknowledgements viii
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
1 The Historical Context and Gui’s, Eymerich’s and Ugolini’s Lives 14
2 The Interpretation of Gui’s Practica and Eymerich’s Directorium 30
3 Inquisitors’ Companions and Relationships with the Secular Arm
and with the Rest of the Church 58
4 Detection, Interrogation, Abjuration and the Inquisitor’s
Relationship with His Suspects 92
5 Sermones Generales – the Theatre of Inquisition 142
6 Changes in Thinking on Inquisition and Heresy 165
Conclusions and Consequences 207
Appendix A: Cautelæ inquisitorum decem contra hæreticorum cavillationes
et fraudes 222
Appendix B: Super illius specula 230
Bibliography 233
Index 245
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Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge all the help and encouragement I have had from
academic staff at UCL and Birkbeck, in particular Professor David d’Avray
at UCL and Professor John Arnold, who was Professor of Medieval History
at Birkbeck as my supervisor for my PhD but who is now at Cambridge.
I would also like to thank all those who have helped form my views on
heresy. I hope I have fully noted where I have drawn on their ideas. I should
mention in particular Alain Boureau, Michael Bailey, Jean-Louis Biget, Peter
Biller, Caterina Bruschi, Irene Bueno, Christine Caldwell Ames, Norman
Cohn, James Given, Claudia Heimann, Richard Kieckhefer, Robert Moore,
Jaume de Puig i Oliver, Michel Roquebert and Lucy Sackville. I have had the
pleasure of meeting some but not all of them. I would like to thank all the
libraries that have helped me, notably the Institute for Historical Research
and the Warburg; a particular thank you to the Biblioteca Bartomeu March in
Palma de Mallorca, which allowed me to come into the library when it was
closed in order to read the manuscript of Eymerich’s Directorium Inquisitorum;
to Cornell Library, whose online text of the printed Directorium was a great
help; and to Eugene Smelyansky for sending me a copy of his article cited in
this book. Finally, with thanks to the Isobel Thornley fund for their generous
financial support for this volume.
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Abbreviations
BL British Library, London.
BM Nicholas Eymerich, Directorium inquisitorum, Palma
de Mallorca, Biblioteca Bartomeu March, MS 104-II-7,
fols. 1r–126v.
BnF Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
Bullaire Bullaire de l’Inquisition française au XIVe siècle, ed. J.-M.
Vidal (Paris, 1913).
CIC Corpus Iuris Canonici, ed. E. Friedberg, 2 vols. (Leipzig,
1881).
De officio De officio inquisitionis, anonymous Italian inquisi-
tor’s manual of 1320s (Il ‘De officio inquisitionis’: la
procedura inquisitoriale a Bologna e a Ferrara nel, ed. L.
Paolini (Bologna, 1976)).
Directorium Nicholas Eymerich, Directorium inquisitorum (Rome,
1578–79). This printed version is available at http://
ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=
witch;idno=wit045.
Doctrina Doctrina de modo procedendi contra hæreticos, in
Thesaurus novus anecdotorum, ed. E. Martène and U.
Durand, 5 vols. (Paris, 1717),V, 1795–1822.
Fournier Jacques Fournier, Le Registre d’Inquisition de Jacques
Fournier (1318–1325), ed. J. Duvernoy, 3 vols.
(Toulouse, 1965).
Glossa Ordinaria Corpus juris canonici emendatum et notis illustratum, 4
vols. (Rome, 1582).
Heimann C. Heimann, Nicolaus Eymerich (vor 1320–1399): praed-
icator veridicus, inquisitor intrepidus, doctor egregius:
Leben und Werk eines Inquisitors (Münster, 2001).
HGL C. de Vic and J. Vaissette, Histoire Générale de
Languedoc, rev. edn, Auguste Molinier et al., 10 vols.
(Toulouse, 1872–1904).
inquisition (inquisitio) inquisitio hereticæ pravitatis (‘inquiry [or investigation]
into heretical depravity’)
Mansi G. Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima
Collectio, 53 vols. (Venice, 1779), XXIII.
Practica Bernard Gui, Practica Inquisitionis Heretice Pravitatis,
ed. C. Douais (Paris, 1886).
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