The book A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages was written by author Henry Charles Lea Here you can read free online of A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages a good or bad book?
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de CIt. Dei xvm. 18. t Festns s. v^ Strig®.— Virg. Edog. vm. 97;-— August de Giv. Dei xvm. 17. —Paul ^glnet Instit Medic, ni. lO.^Oeryas. Tilberiena Otia Imperial Deds. HL c. 120.— Of. Volsunga Saga v., vm. 892 SORCERY AND OCCULT ARTS. by incantations and soroery secured the affections of his bride Pudentilla, a woman of mature age who had been fourteen years a widow. Had the court, like those of the Middle Ages, enjoyed the infallible resource of torture, he would readily have been forced to c...onfession, with the attendant death-penalty ; but as there was no charge of treason involved, he was free to disculpate himself by evidence and argument, and he escaped.* The severest penalties of the law, in fact, were traditionally directed against all practitioners of magic. The surviving frag- ments of the Decemviral legislation show that this dated from an early period of the republic. With the spread of the Roman con* quests, the introduction of Orientalized Hellenism was followed by Uie magic of the East, more imposing than the homelier native practices, arousing the liveliest fear and indignation.
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