Bernard Gui
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Bernard Gui, also known as Bernardo Gui or Bernardus Guidonis, was a Limousin Dominican friar, Bishop of Lodève, and a papal inquisitor during the later stages of the Medieval Inquisition.
14th-century illustration of Gui receiving a blessing from Pope John XXII
Illustrations from a copy of Gui's Arbor genealogiae regum francorum produced in the 1330s, showing the Carolingian kings Lothair and Louis V
Practica officii inquisitionis heretice pravitatis, manuscript, 14th century. Toulouse, Bibliothèque d'Etude et du Patrimoine, Fonds Manuscrits, Ms 388.
Inquisition
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An inquisition was a Catholic judicial procedure in which ecclesiastical judges could initiate, investigate and try cases in their jurisdiction. Popularly the Inquisition became the name for various m
Tribunal at the Inquisitor's Palace in Birgu, Malta. Eymeric's manual recommends that the accused be seated on a backless low bench.
The Albigensian massacre (chronicle of Saint-Denis, 14th century, London, British Library)
Waldensians flying on a broom, in a manuscript by Martin Le France (1451)
Pedro Berruguete, Saint Dominic Guzmán presiding over an Auto da fe (c. 1495). (Portuguese for "Act of Faith").