Heretics In 1231

If used by the right hands, technology can become a powerful tool to stamp out the undesirables from the desirables. This can be seen when Lessig Lawrence explained about the Z-theory and Patriot Act. Just like how the Patriot Act was used by the U.S. government to monitor U.S. citizens phone calls to track for terrorist, during the ages of the Inquisition, inquisitors would also monitor suspected heretics through record keeping and track down heresy. Just like how the Patriot Act only happen during an extreme event like 9/11, the Inquisition was formed because of the growing numbers of unregulated heretics in Languedoc. The creation of the Inquisition in 1231 by Pope Gregory IX, made them efficiently able to track and persecute heretics and would-be heretics. They no longer needed a formal accusation to arrest suspects, just like the Patriot Act and its …show more content…
“the technology the inquisitors fashioned to help them stamp out heresy”. When the Inquisition got to the point where they started to create dossiers and documents, it also greatly helped them to track suspects and heretics and organized their findings. The technology of investigation, as Given calls it, had given the Inquisition the ability to produce interrogations that could readily be collated with excessive expenditure of time and labor. This greatly improved the Inquisitions tracking of heretics in many villages and efficiently stamp them out in clean fashion. Examples of their records were the inquisitors collection of works written by heretics or records about interrogation and coercion techniques. As Given points out, “The manuals contained a great diversity of material. Some were mere formularies, with examples of the standard legal documents that inquisitors prepared during their investigations.” This gave any Inquisitors old or new to study and identify heretics more effectively and helped them to refine their methods of superior techniques for discovering the