ISBN: 9781234893880

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APPENDICES. APPENDIX I. JUDICIAL TORTURE. UNKNOWN among the Barbarians who founded the commonwealths of the modern world, Judicial Torture had no existence in Western Europe during the whole of the period that is scornfully characterized as the dark ages. In antient Greece, says Mr. Lecky {Rationalism, i., 328-9), torture was never employed, except in cases of Treason. In the best days of antient Rome, notwithstanding the notorious inhumanity of the people, it was exclusively confined to the slaves. The extraordinary ingenuity of mediaeval ecclesiastical tortures, and the extent to which they were elaborated by the clergy . . . possesses a great but painful interest. Judicial torture was revived in Christendom only in the middle of the thirteenth century, when Innocent IV. in his Bull ad extirpanda, in 125a, prescribed its use for the discovery and suppression of heresy. A certain respect for ancient prejudices, indeed, constrained the Pope to forbid its actual administration by the Inquisitors themselves, or even by the familiars of the Holy Office, but this restraint was of very short duration. Four years only after the Bull of Innocent IV., Alexander IV. in 1256 removed the difficulty in a most characteristic fashion by authorizing Inquisitors and their associates to absolve one another, and mutually grant dispensation for irregularities of practice or procedure; a permission which was more than once repeated, and which was held to remove all canonical impediments to the use of torture under the direct supervision of the Inquisitor himself.1 Although the extension of torture in secular judicial procedure was remarkably slow, it grew rapidly in favour with the Church, and was found in general use, by the beginning of the fourteenth century, not only in the... Ulick Ralph Burke, Books, History, A History Of Spain From The Earliest Times To The Death Of Ferdinand The Catholic (volume 2) Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781234893880

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APPENDICES. APPENDIX I. JUDICIAL TORTURE. UNKNOWN among the Barbarians who founded the commonwealths of the modern world, Judicial Torture had no existence in Western Europe during the whole of the period that is scornfully characterized as the dark ages. In antient Greece, says Mr. Lecky {Rationalism, i., 328-9), torture was never employed, except in cases of Treason. In the best days of antient Rome, notwithstanding the notorious inhumanity of the people, it was exclusively confined to the slaves. The extraordinary ingenuity of mediaeval ecclesiastical tortures, and the extent to which they were elaborated by the clergy . . . possesses a great but painful interest. Judicial torture was revived in Christendom only in the middle of the thirteenth century, when Innocent IV. in his Bull ad extirpanda, in 125a, prescribed its use for the discovery and suppression of heresy. A certain respect for ancient prejudices, indeed, constrained the Pope to forbid its actual administration by the Inquisitors themselves, or even by the familiars of the Holy Office, but this restraint was of very short duration. Four years only after the Bull of Innocent IV., Alexander IV. in 1256 removed the difficulty in a most characteristic fashion by authorizing Inquisitors and their associates to absolve one another, and mutually grant dispensation for irregularities of practice or procedure; a permission which was more than once repeated, and which was held to remove all canonical impediments to the use of torture under the direct supervision of the Inquisitor himself.1 Although the extension of torture in secular judicial procedure was remarkably slow, it grew rapidly in favour with the Church, and was found in general use, by the beginning of the fourteenth century, not only in the... Ulick Ralph Burke, Books, History, A History Of Spain From The Earliest Times To The Death Of Ferdinand The Catholic (volume 2) Books>History <