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Medieval Sourcebook: Inquisition - Introduction |
 | | Instead there were "inquisitors of heretical depravity," individuals assigned by the pope to inquire into heresy in specific areas. |
| | New inquisitors needed guidance, and the need was met by a series of manuals written in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries by old hands. |
| | Modern writers do not treat the inquisitors gently - Bernard Gui in the film version of The Name of the Rose is simply a fanatic, and Umberto Eco doesn't treat him much better in the novel - yet their preoccupations are more familiar than we care to admit. |
| www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/inquisition1.html (1911 words) |
