BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY: THE SEMICIRCUMCISION OF CHRISTIANS ACCORDING TO BERNARD GUI, HIS SOURCES AND R. ELIEZER OF METZ
The Dominican friar Bernard Gui (or Bernardus Guidonis, ca. 1261–1331) was papal inquisitor in Toulouse from 1307 to 1323. At the close of his inquisitorial career he wrote Practica inquisitionis heretice pravitatis, “A Handbook for the Inquisition of Heretical Depravity.”I cite Bernard's Pract...
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| Published in: | The Harvard theological review 2001-07, Vol.94 (3), p.285-321 |
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| Summary: | The Dominican friar Bernard Gui (or Bernardus Guidonis, ca. 1261–1331) was papal inquisitor in Toulouse from 1307 to 1323. At the close of his inquisitorial career he wrote Practica inquisitionis heretice pravitatis, “A Handbook for the Inquisition of Heretical Depravity.”I cite Bernard's Practica from the edition by C. Douais (Paris: Alphonse Picard, 1886) and from the edition of part 5 by G. Mollat with the assistance of G. Drioux, Bernard Gui, Manuel de l'inquisiteur (2 vols.; Paris: Honoré Champion, 1927). The following works, which are cited frequently, are cited by author's name and brief title: Antoine Dondaine, “Le manuel de l'inquisiteur (1230–1330),” Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 17 (1947) 85–194; Solomon Grayzel, The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century, Vol. 2: 1254–1314 (ed. Kenneth Stow; New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1988); Shlomo Simonsohn, The Apostolic See and the Jews: Documents 492–1404 (Studies and Texts 94; Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1988) and The Apostolic See and the Jews: History (Studies and Texts 109; Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991); Walter Wakefield and Austin Evans, Heresies of the High Middle Ages (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969; repr., 1991); Yosef H. Yerushalmi, “The Inquisition and the Jews of France in the Time of Bernard Gui,” HTR 63 (1970) 317–76. On Bernard Gui, see Wakefield and Evans, Heresies 373–75; Yerushalmi, “Inquisition”; A. Vernet, “Guidonis, Bernardo,” Lexikon des Mittelalters 1 (1980) 1976–78; Bernard Gui et son monde (Cahiers de Fanjeaux 16; Toulouse: Edouard Privat, 1981); Jeremy Cohen, The Friars and the Jews (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982) 89–96. In this work Bernard sets out in great detail everything one needs to know in order to be an effective inquisitor: the proper legal forms for drawing up accusations, summoning witnesses, and remanding suspects into custody; the proper questions to use in cross-examining suspects; the assessment of evidence for guilt versus innocence; the hallmarks of true confession, contrition, and repentance; the appropriate punishments for the condemned; the legal authority for the Inquisition; and, in part 5, the concluding and perhaps most interesting part of the entire work, a detailed description of the errors and sects that threaten the church and require the vigilance of the Inquisition: the Manichees (Cathari), Waldensians (Poor of Lyon), Pseudo-Apostles (Apostles of Christ), Beguins (P |
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| ISSN: | 0017-8160 1475-4517 1475-4517 |