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vi CONTENTS. Page Fate of the Sectaries 100 The Order of Apostles. — Spiritual Tendencies 103 Gherardo Segarelli. — Burned in 1300 104 Dolcino Assumes the Leadership 109 His Open Revolt. — Suppressed after Four Crusades 113 Continuance and Character of the Heresy 120 Chapter III. — The Fraticelli. Question Raised as to the Poverty of Christ 129 Reaction against the Holiness of Poverty 130 Doctrine of the Poverty of Christ Declared a Heresy 134 It Complicates the Quarrel with Louis of Bavaria 135 Marsiglio of Padua and William of Ockham 139 Gradual Estrangement of the Franciscans 142 Louis Deposes John XXII. as a Heretic 145 Michele da Cesena Revolts 147 Utility of the Inquisition. — Submission of the Antipope . . . . 149 Struggle in Germany. — The Franciscans Support Louis 153 Louis gradually Gains Strength. — His Death 156 Dissident Franciscans Known as Fraticelli 158 Sympathy for them under Persecution 160 Their Tenets 162 Fraticelli in France and Spain 167 Orthodox Ascetism. — Jesuats. — Observantines 171 The Observantines Replace and Suppress the Fraticelli 174 Chapter IV. — Political Heresy Utilized by the Church. Denial of Papal Claims Pronounced Heresy 181 The Stedingers. — Tithes Enforced by Crusades 182 Crusades to Support Italian Interests of Papacy 189 Importance of Inquisition as a Political Agency 190 Advantage of the Charge of Heresy 191 Manfred of Naples. — The Colonnas. — Ferrara 193 John XXII. and the Visconti 196 Cola di Rienzo. — The Maffredi 203 Use of Inquisition in the Great Schism 204 Case of Thomas Connecte 208 Girolamo Savonarola . . 209