Criminal-Inquisitorial Trials in English Church Trials : From the Middle Ages to the Reformation. by Kelly, Henry Ansgar

Table of Contents: “…The origins of inquisitorial procedure -- The beginnings of inquisitorial procedure in England -- The prosecution of the knights templar in England -- Alleged heretical sorcerers in Ireland -- Fourteenth-Century correction proceedings -- The processing of criminous clerks by inquisition/purgation -- Prosecuting heterodoxy after John Wyclif : the blackfriars method of interrogating present belief -- Trials of Lollards and the death penalty -- Last Wycliffites, Margery Kempe, and other alleged dissenters -- Tithes; nigromancy; teachings of reginald pecock -- Dissent, crimes, and divorce : Richard Hunne, criminous clerks, and Henry VIII -- Heresy trials and Sir Thomas More -- Parliament and inquisition under Henry VIII and Edward VI -- Marian Reversals, Elizabethan return to papal law -- Conclusion : inquisition on trial.…”
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