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Henry Charles Lea

Born

in Philadelphia, The United States

September 19, 1825

Died

October 24, 1909

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Average rating: 3.83 · 299 ratings · 30 reviews · 310 distinct works

	A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (Complete - Volume 1, 2 and 3) 3.84 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1887 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 3.63 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2002 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moriscos of Spain; Their Conversion and Expulsion 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1901 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume III 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2005 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2005 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superstition and Force: Torture, ordeal, and trial by combat in medieval law really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1866 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History Of The Inquisition Of Spain V1 (1906) 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of the Inquisition of Spain 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1980 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Torture by Henry Charles Lea, Jerre Gerlando Mangione (Introduction) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1866 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of the Inquisition of Spain, Volume 2 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“for the destiny of all men lay in the hands which could administer or withhold the sacraments essential to salvation. Thus intrusted with responsibility for the fate of mankind, it was necessary that the Church should possess the powers and the machinery requisite for the due discharge of a trust so unspeakably important.”
― Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages

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“THE Church admitted that it had brought upon itself the dangers which threatened it—that the alarming progress of heresy was caused and fostered by clerical negligence and corruption. In his opening address to the great Lateran Council, Innocent III. had no scruple in declaring to the assembled fathers: “The corruption of the people has its chief source in the clergy. From”
― Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages

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“To understand fully the causes which drove so many thousands into schism and heresy, leading to wars and persecutions, and the establishment of the Inquisition, it is necessary{6} to cast a glance at the character of the men who represented the Church before the people, and at the use which they made, for good or for evil, of the absolute spiritual despotism which had become established. In wise and devout hands it might elevate incalculably the moral and material standards of European civilization; in the hands of the selfish and depraved it could become the instrument of minute and all-pervading oppression, driving whole nations to despair.”
― Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages

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