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44 Ibid., pp. 87–93, 160-3, 176-80, 197, 223.

45 Ibid., p. 100.

46 Ibid., pp. 283, 285.

47 Ibid., pp. 52, 58, 59; and cf. p. 268

48 Ibid., p. 41.

49 Ibid., p. 43.

50 Ibid., p. 132.

CHAPTER SEVEN: THREE FORGERIES AND ANOTHER WRONG TRACK

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1 W. G. Soldan, Geschichte der Hexenprocesse, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1843, pp. 180, 186-7, 189.

2 J. Hansen, Zauberwahn, Inquisition und Hexenprozess im Mittelalter und die Entstchung der grossen Hexenverfolgung, Munich and Leipzig, 1900, pp. 309, 315-17, 326, 335, 337.

3 Hansen, op. cit., pp. 309-10. The other references to Angela de la Barthe are at pp. 188, 234.

4 E.-L. de Lamothe-Langon, Histoire de l’inquisition en France, vol. II, Paris, 1829, pp. 614-15.

5 T. Bouges, Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de la ville et diocèse de Carcassonne, Paris, 1741, pp. 200-1.

6 D. de Vic and J. Vaissete, Histoire générale de Languedoc, vol. IV, Paris, 1742, Avertissement, p. v. The text of the “chronicle of Bardin” is in the Preuves, at cols. 2-47. For Molinier’s comments see the new edition, vol. X, Toulouse, 1885, Notes, cols. 424-36.

7 He gives the source himself: J. J. Percin, Monumenta conventus Tolosani Ordinis FF. Praedicatorum, Toulouse, 1693, p. 109.

8 Cf. Vic and Vaissete, op. cit., Preuves, col. 5. Percin’s history makes no mention of the trial of Angela de la Barthe in its section on the inquisitors of Toulouse.

9 Cf. Vic and Vaissete, op. cit., col. 18.

10 Ibid., cols. 17–18.

11 Biographie toulousaine, vol. I, Paris, 1823, pp. 400-1.

12 Hansen, Zauberwahn, pp. 315-30.

13 Hansen, Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung im Mittelalter, Bonn, 1901, pp. 450-3.

14 Lamothe-Langon, op. cit., vol. III, pp. 235-40.

15 That Pierre Guidonis was inquisitor at Toulouse in 1344 is stated in J. Quétif and J. Echard, Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum, vol. I, Paris, 1719, p. 625, on the strength of a single phrase in a single manuscript. M. J. C. Douais repeated it in Les frères prêcheurs en Gascogne au xiii^e et an xiv^e siècle, Auch, 1885, p. 453; but he omitted the name from the list of inquisitors (which includes those only rarely mentioned in documents) in his later work, Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’Inquisition dans le Languedoc, Paris, 1900, pp. cxxx-cxxxiv.

16 For the list of capitouls: G. La Faille, Annales de la Ville de Toulouse, vol. I, p. 73, Toulouse, 1687; A. L. C. A. Du Mège, Histoire des Institutions... de Toulouse, vol. II, Toulouse, 1844, p. 45. Cf. E. Roschach, “Les listes municipales de Toulouse du xii^e au xviii^e siècle”, in Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences... de Toulouse, 8th series, vol. VII (1885), pp. 1-22.

17 Lamothe-Langon, op. cit., vol. III, p. 226.

18 For the letter of John XXII to the inquisitors: Hansen, Quellen, pp. 4–5. For the background of the papal intervention: Anneliese Maier, “Eine Verfügung Johannes XXII. Über die Zuständigkeit des Inquisition fur Zaubereiprozesse”, in Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, vol. XXII, Rome, 1952, pp. 226-46.

19 Bernard Gui, Manuel de l’lnquisiteur, ed. G. Mollat, 2 vols., Paris, 1926-7. What magic meant to an inquisitor at that time is shown at pp. 20-4 of vol. II. The sentences of Guidonis himself, as given in the Liber Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholosanae in Philip Limborch’s Historia Inquisitionis, Amsterdam, 1692, pp. 394 seq., includes not a single case of magic or sorcery.

20 Text in Hansen, Quellen, pp. 6–7.

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21 On Lamothe-Langon see R. Switzer, Etienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon ct le roman populaire français de 1800 a 1830, Toulouse, 1962; L. de Santi, “Episodes de l’histoire de Toulouse sous le premier Empire”, in Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences et des Belles-Lettres de Toulouse, 10th series, vol. XII, Toulouse, 1912, pp. 87-100.

22 Lamothe-Langon, Histoire de l’Inquisition en France, vol. I, Preface, pp. xxxiv-xxxv.

23 Quoted by de Santi, op. cit., p. 88.