14TH C. TRIALS: FROM HERESY TO SORCERY

I. DISTINCTION OF MAGICAL CRIMES        
      Maleficium: harm done by witchcraft

      Diabolism:  Devil worship or
                       demonolatry (latria = worship)

      Ritual Magic or Sorcery: literate, male (often cleric)
         
  Key of Solomon:  manual for invocation of demons
             grimoire: genre of books of magical spells

II. DENUNCIATION OF LEARNED MAGIC

      1258--Pope Alexander IV:  extends   Inquisition's
         jurisdiction extended to include any sorcery  which
       
 “clearly involves heresy” (SAPERE HERESIM MANIFESTE)

      1326 -- SUPER ILLIUS SPECULA (K & P, #21)
                  
Papal bull of John XXII against invokers of demons

      1376 -- NICOLAS EYMERIC,
                  INQUISITOR'S GUIDE (K & P, #22 )

III. 14th CENTURY TRIALS: FROM HERESY TO SORCERY 
                                      (See Cohn Ch. 6-7)

     Political Uses of Sorcery Accusations 1300-1330

      King Philip IV of France
            1307-1310 persecution of the Knights Templars
           
1310  trial of Pope Boniface VIII posthumously
           
1308  trial of Bishop of Troyes

      Avignon Papacy (1305-1378)
         
  Pope John XXII: 1317--Burns Bishop of Cahors
          
1326--SUPER ILLIUS SPECULA: Revoked in 1330
           
1329--Pierre Recordi

            Ireland:  1324--Trial of Lady Alice Kyteler
                          
Bishop Ledrede as Avignon Connection