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, author of manual
                  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: papal bull, revoked in 1330
            1329--Pierre Recordi

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