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CONTENTS
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| Hesitation to Punish in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries | 218 |
| Uncertainty as to Form of Punishment | 220 |
| Burning Alive Adopted in the Thirteenth Century | 221 |
| Evasion of Responsibility by the Church | 223 |
| The Temporal Authority Coerced to Persecute | 224 |
| Persecution of the Dead | 230 |
| Motives Impelling to Persecution | 233 |
| Cruelty of the Middle Ages | 234 |
| Exaggerated Detestation of Heresy | 236 |
| Influence of Asceticism | 238 |
| Conscientious Motives | 239 |
CHAPTER VI.-THE MENDICANT ORDERS. | |
| Material for Reform within the Church | 243 |
| Foulques de Neuilly | 244 |
| Durán de Huesca anticipates Dominic and Francis | 246 |
| St. Dominic, his Career and Character | 248 |
| His Order founded in 1214.—Its Success | 251 |
| St. Francis of Assisi | 256 |
| His Order Founded.—Injunction of Poverty | 257 |
| He Realizes the Christian Ideal. | 200 |
| Extravagant Laudation of Poverty | 264 |
| Influence of the Mendicant Orders | 266 |
| Emotional Character of the Age.—The Pastoureaux.—The Flagellants | 268 |
| The Mendicants Rendered Independent of the Prelates. | 273 |
| Their Utility to the Papacy | 274 |
| Antagonism between them and the Secular Clergy. | 278 |
| The Battle Fought out in the University of Paris | 281 |
| Victory of the Mendicants.—Unappeasable Hostility | 289 |
| Degeneracy of the Orders | 294 |
| Their Activity as Missionaries | 297 |
| Their Functions as Inquisitors | 299 |
| Inveterate Hostility between the Orders | 302 |
CHAPTER VII-THE INQUISITION FOUNDED. | |
| Uncertainty in the Discovery and Punishment of Heretics | 305 |
| Growth of Episcopal Jurisdiction | 308 |
| Procedure in Episcopal Courts.—The Inquisitorial Process | 309 |
| System of Inquests | 311 |
