| 1888 - 510 sidor
...later, or Spanish Inquisition of Torquemada. It "was not," he advises his readers at the beginning, "an organization arbitrarily devised and imposed upon...the forces at work in the thirteenth century," and it is best to be understood by a careful study of the " inquisitorial process." To a thorough exposition... | |
| 1888 - 528 sidor
...and imposed upon the judicial system of christendom by the ambition or fanaticism or the church, but a natural, one may almost say an inevitable, evolution of the forces at work in the thirteenth century. To prove this position his first volume consists largely of a review of the spiritual and intellectual... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 550 sidor
...Christendom by the ambition or fanaticism of the Church. It was, rather, a natural — one might almost say inevitable — evolution of the forces at work in...thirteenth century ; and no one can rightly appreciate the^process of its development and the results of its activity without a somewhat minute consideration... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - 1903 - 404 sidor
...que cette aventure est arrivée, c'est dans le dixhuitième." We must agree, then, with Mr. Lea, that "the Inquisition was not an organization arbitrarily...of the forces at work in the thirteenth century." l And, of course, the men of the Middle Ages found a justification for its worst severities in the... | |
| Henry Charles Lea - 1922 - 608 sidor
...imposed upon the judicial system of Christendom by the '' ambition or fanaticism of the Church. It^was rather a natural — , one may almost say an inevitable...evolution of the forces at . work in the thirteenth centuryTand no one can rightly appreciate the process of its development and the results of its activity... | |
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