Books by Henry Charles Lea

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Histoire de l'Inquisition au moyen âge, ouvrage traduit sur l'exemplaire revu et corrigé de l'auteur par Salomon Reinach, ... précédé d'une introduction historique de Paul Frédéricq, .... Tome 2Date de l'édition originale: 1900-1901Comprend: Introduction historiqueLe présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande. Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables. Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique. Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu. Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

This fourth and final volume mainly continues where Volume III left off. This book continues to explore the areas the inquisition had influence and the way it found out how heretics emerged and worked in the respective fields the inquisition caught them in. Although the methods were brutal and the victims often innocent, the inquisition shows how thorough it was when dealing with these "sins." And then finally, Lea shows us the steady decline of the inquisition after the wars of Napoleon and how they tried to survive but failed.

The third volume in this monument of a work, focuses on the continued ways the inquisition brought to trial its victims as well as the sentences carried out. The penalties are brutal and many horror stories have been told in schools and dinner tables about the methods of the fearful inquisition. Then Lea moves on to the areas of influence the inquisition had and the realms of its dark and revealing investigations.

In this follow-up to Volume I, Lea continues to lay out the history and structure of the infamous Spanish Inquisition. The first parts lay out the jurisdiction and the spiritual matters the inquisitors had the ability to convict on. Also included in the organization and how they operated in different countries under the headship of the pope of Rome. Lastly, Lea covers such topics as the resources that the inquisitors had at their command as well as the method and practice of the heretical purge.

The beginning of this four volume set that lines out the complete history of one of the most infamous yet influential branches in Roman Catholic history. This volume starts the series off by showing us the history of the origins of the Inquisition including the reasons behind the formation of such a dangerous sect. This volume reveals that the sect did not have its difficulties getting started and ends off by outlining how the group had to deal with state lines and who had say in what.

Léo Taxil, Diana Vaughan et l'Église romaine: histoire d'une mystification / Henry Charles LeaDate de l'édition originale: 1901Sujet de l'ouvrage: Taxil, Léo (1854-1907)Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF.HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces oeuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande.Certains de ces ouvrages reflètent des courants de pensée caractéristiques de leur époque, mais qui seraient aujourd'hui jugés condamnables.Ils n'en appartiennent pas moins à l'histoire des idées en France et sont susceptibles de présenter un intérêt scientifique ou historique.Le sens de notre démarche éditoriale consiste ainsi à permettre l'accès à ces oeuvres sans pour autant que nous en cautionnions en aucune façon le contenu.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

The history of jurisprudence is the history of civilization. The labors of the lawgiver embody not only the manners and customs of his time, but also its innermost thoughts and beliefs, laid bare for our examination with a frankness that admits of no concealment. These afford the surest outlines for a trustworthy picture of the past, of which the details are supplied by the records of the chronicler. The history of civilization and the acts done out of superstition includes judicial combat versus the duel, kinsman versus campions in judicial combat, the judgement of god throughout the world, the ordeal of boiling water, red hot iron, fire, cold water, ordeal of balance, ordeal of the cross, poison ordeals, and more. The section on torture talks of the various methods throughout the different societies including the first appearance of torture, the inquisition, and all grades of torture. Lea was the leading authority of his age on medieval combat, ordeals and torture as means of proof of a person's right or innocence in trials and other legal arenas. A fascinating look at the doctrine of "might makes right" as the basis of law, originally published in 1892.

Henry Charles Lea was one of the first American historians to use what would later be termed comparative and anthropological approaches to history. Under his pen, the study of the medieval ordeal becomes a study in cultural history.Reprinted here from the fourth revised edition of 1892, the book begins by tracing the role of the ordeal in non-Western and ancient societies, showing the mental world to which it belongs: a limited trust in the public order and purely human methods of inquiry, and a larger faith in divine intervention and immanent justice. The work then describes the uses of the institution through the European Middle Ages to its final abolition, and in the process offers a rich typology of ordeals. Additional documents included in this edition present formulas and descriptions of some of the ordeals most frequently used: the ordeal by boiling water, by hot water, by cold water, by hot iron and water, by glowing plowshares, by fire, and the ordeal of the cross.