Untitled - Shattering Denial

CHAPTER IX
THE INQUISITION IN OPERATION
WE do not intend to relate every detail of the In
quisition s action. A brief outline, a sort of bird s-
eye view, will suffice.
Its field, although very extensive, did not comprise
the whole of Christendom, nor even all the Latin countries.
The Scandinavian kingdoms escaped it almost entirely;
England experienced it only once in the case of the Tem
plars; Castile and Portugal knew nothing of it before the
reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. It was almost unknown
in France at least as an established institution -
except in the South, in what was called the county of
Toulouse, and later on in Languedoc.
The Inquisition was in full operation in Aragon. The
Cathari, it seems, were wont to travel frequently from
Languedoc to Lombardy, so that upper Italy had from
an early period its contingent of Inquisitors. Frederic
II had it established in the two Sicilies and in many cities
of Italy and Germany. 1
duced it into Sardinia. 2
Honorius IV (1285-1287) intro
Its activity in Flanders and
1 On the spread of the Inquisition, cf. Lea, op. tit., passim.
2 Potthast, no. 22307; Registres d Honorius IV, published by Maurice
Prou, 1888, no. 163.
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