| A | B |
|---|
| heresy | Rejection or denial of church teachings |
| Knights Templar | Group of monastic militants who protected pilgrim routes and defended frontiers of Christendom. |
| Albigensians | Group of Manichaean heretics |
| Sorcery | Recognized as a heresy in 1398 and was called a total conflict with the Christian faith. |
| Gregory IX | begins Medieval Inquisition |
| Sixtus IV | authorizes the Spanish Inquisition |
| Paul III | establishes the Roman Inquisition |
| Tomas de Tourquemada | A Dominican priest and Isabella's confessor who became head of the Spanish Inquisition. |
| Marranos | Only nominally converted, and continued there Jewish customs in secret. |
| murus strictus | High security prison mainly for heretics. |
| Inquistor | head of an Inquisitional trial |
| Notary | Took down in writing every question and answer, including exclamations of pain emmited by the victims of torture. |
| Cathars | Radical group who interpreted the Scriptures in a different manner than the Catholic Church. |
| Index of Forbidden Books | Books banned by the church because of disagreements with the church. |
| Bernardino Ochino | The head of the Capuchin Order, who fled Italy and embraced Protestanism |
| Pauline Index | Books banned by the church by Paul IV in 1559 |
| Tridentine Index | Released in 1564 by the Council of Trent banning even more books. |
| Joan of Arc | Captured by the Burgundians during battle, and was burnt at the stake at Rouen in 1431, but attained the position of a saint in 1456. |
| Dominican Order | Founded in 1220 by St. Dominic. |
| converso | a converted Jew, a New Christian |
