Inquisition

** __ The Inquisition __ **
** By: Bailey

The Inquisition was a judicial institution that charged people that were seeking out, trying, and sentencing people that are guilty of heresy. Heresy is the introduction of change to some system of believe.

A great women leader that participated in the 100 years war, Joan of Arc, was considered a heretic because she reported regular vision of the divine revaluation. She was burned on a stack because people though that she was crazy by dressing in mens clothing and telling others, what they called "voices in her head," what God was telling her to do. No one would believe what she had to say and with one person saying something that she was crazy they killed her for being DIFFERENT!

The Inquisition was like a punishment that would punish people that would sin against the Church. Their punishment was death and that was final nothing could get them out of it. **

**St. Augustine** **made some what of a reluctant approval to the action by the state against the** **heretics. This still went on when the Church was in complete disapproval of physical penalties. Nothing would stop anyone, mostly the personnel that worked in the Church, from killing and tormenting people that would "sin" against the Church. If someone didn't stop this from being such a big epidemic there would not be a a way knowing if someone didn't do anything.

Thats were the Magna Carta come in. This is the 1st written down document of the Middle Ages, which is similar to the Declaration of Indepenece. It was written down document that aloud everyone to know what the laws were and NO ONE could change it, if everyone still fallowed the laws that weren't written down and couldn't be changed with someone telling someone else what to do.**




 * || "Inquisition." 16 April 2009 . ||  ||
 * || "Inquisition: Introduction." 14 April 2009 . ||  ||
 * || "The Real Inquisition: Investigating the Popular Myth." 15 April 2009 . ||  ||