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Section 5. _the Inquisition and the Index_

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SOURCES:

P. Fredericq: Corpus Documentorum Inquisitionis Neerlandicae, vols. 4, 5., 1900 ff.

L. von Pastor: Allegemeine Dekrete der roemischen Inquisition 1555-97. 1913.

Mandament der Keyserlijcken Maiesteit, vuytghegeven int Iaer xlvi. Louvain. 1546. One hundred facsimile copies printed for A. M. Huntington at the De Vinne Press, New York, 1896.

Catalogi Librorum reprobatorum & praelegendorum ex iudicio Academiae Louaniensis, Pinciae. MDLI. Mandato dominorum de consilio sanctae generalis Inquisitionis. One hundred facsimile copies printed for A. M. Huntington at the De Vinne Press, New York, 1895.

Catalogus librorum qui prohibentur mandato Illustrissimi & Rev. D. D. Ferdinand de Valdes, Hispalen. Archiepiscopi, Inquisitoris Generalis Hispaniae, 1559. One hundred facsimile copies printed at De Vinne Press, 1895.

LITERATURE.

H. C. Lea: A History of the Inquisition in Spain. 4 vols. 1906-7. Characterized by wide reading and the use of many manuscripts which Lea had copied from all European archives. A really wonderful work. The manuscripts on which it is based are still in his library in Philadelphia. I have been kindly allowed by his son and daughter to look over those on Spanish Protestantism.

H. C. Lea: The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies. 1908.

P. Fredericq: "Les recents historiens catholiques de l'Inquisition en France," Revue Historique, cix, 1912, pp. 307 ff. (A scathing criticism of the apologists of the Inquisition who have written against Lea).

E. N. Adler: Auto de Fe and the Jew. 1908.

E. Schaefer: Beitraege zur Geschichte des spanischen Protestantismus und der Inquisition. 3 vols. 1902.

G. Bushbell: Reformation und Inquisition in Italien um die Mitte des XVI Jahrhunderts. 1910.

F. H. Reusch: Der Index der verbotenen Buecher. 2 vols. 1883. (Standard).

J. Hilgers: Der Index der verbotenen Buecher. 1904. (Apologetic).

H. C. Lea: Chapters from the Religious History of Spain connected with the Inquisition. 1890. (Chiefly on the Index).

Articles: "Inquisition," "Holy Office," &c. in the Encylopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Protestantische Realencyclopaedie, Catholic Encyclopedia, &c.

G. H. Putnam: The Censorship of the Church of Rome. 2 vols. 1906.

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