The Library
1577 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1201–1300
1 work
c. 1250–1261
Latin
Stephen of Bourbon · c. 1180–c. 1261
Illustrative stories for preachers gathered by an inquisitor, including his account of peasants venerating a greyhound as a saint and healer of children.
1301–1400
1 work
c. 1323–1324
Latin
Bernard Gui · c. 1261–1331
An inquisitor's manual describing the beliefs of Cathars, Waldensians, and Spiritual Franciscans, with model interrogations and the sentences appropriate to each.
1401–1500
4 works
written 1376; widely copied thereafter
Latin
Directorium Inquisitorum
Nicholas Eymerich · c. 1316–1399
A systematic manual of inquisitorial law and procedure, defining heresy, listing condemned propositions, and prescribing the conduct of trials.
c. 1458–1461
Latin
Fortalitium Fidei
Alonso de Espina · d. c. 1464
A four-part attack on heretics, Jews, Muslims, and demons, urging the Spanish crown to establish an inquisition against converts suspected of relapsing.
1484, expanded 1488 and 1498
Spanish
Tomás de Torquemada · 1420–1498
The operating rules of the Spanish Inquisition: how to publish an edict of grace, take denunciations, sequester property, and conduct an auto-da-fé.
1486–1487
Latin
Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Kramer · c. 1430–1505
A manual arguing that witchcraft is real, that it is chiefly a crime of women, and setting out how to identify, interrogate under torture, and execute the accused.
1501–1600
1 work
1559; Tridentine revision 1564
Latin
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
The Roman Inquisition
A list of forbidden books and authors, including entire vernacular Bibles, all of Erasmus, and works whose only offence was being printed by the wrong press.
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