HISTORY 1CC3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Pope Innocent Iv, Demesne, Barter
30 Jul 2018
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The church ferreted on heretics (christians who maintained their views the church held as false) This task was in the hands of the special church courts (the inquisition) The inquisition sometimes used torture and imprisonment to force heretics to confess and repent of their sins. Those persons who refused to confess were handed over to civil authorities for punishment - usually death: excommunication and interdict. Against powerful lords who defied its teachings, the church- used the power of excommunication. This meant that the lord was expelled from the church and denied all religious services. The church might place the territory or the country the lord ruled over under interdict: under this order, the sacraments could not be administered in certain areas, basically excommunicating a whole area. To finance its activities they issued a tax. This tax, or tithe, is 10% of the crops or other produce: the church prohibited usury by christians.
