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THE INQUISITION
CONTENTS
DEDICATORY LETTER
PREFACE
THE INQUISITION:
CHAPTER I. THE MEDIÆVAL RECOVERY OF CIVILIZATION
CHAPTER II. LANGUEDOC AND THE ALBIGENSES
CHAPTER III. THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE CRUSADE
CHAPTER IV. THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE—THE EARLY WAR
CHAPTER V. THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE. MURET AND ITS SEQUEL
CHAPTER VI. THE MENDICANT ORDERS AND THE INQUISITION
CHAPTER VII. EPILOGUE ON PROHIBITION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A POLITICAL AND MILITARY STUDY OF ITS ESTABLISHMENT
HOFFMAN NICKERSON
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In this connection one cannot praise too highly the simple and clear fashion in which the author has presented to the reader the real nature of mediæval warfare. There are two points to be established in which, I think, he has been permanently successful. First, in making the reader understand the narrow limits of time to which any effective work on a large scale by a powerful army was then confined. Secondly, the contrast between the feudal forces which were, as it were, normal to the times, and those supplementary mercenary forces, which, though they were not regarded by the time as normal, were the real backbone of all continuous military effort in the West. It is an idea which one might develop in many epochs of military history besides the Middle Ages. Over and over again a particular form of recruitment is regarded as normal and after use for some generations begins from causes inherent in itself to yield insufficient results; whereupon a supplementary form of recruitment, which for long continues to be regarded as exceptional, becomes, as the close observer may discover, the essential of the new fighting force, e.g., the Auxiliaries and the Legions after, say 180, and especially after 312.
It was one of the advantages of the English, by the way, in the later Middle Ages that the difficulty of transporting large feudal forces over the sea led to an early development of their mercenary forces and produced the highly trained professional bowmen who are the mark of the Hundred Years War.
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