CRUSADE, HERESY AND INQUISITION IN THE LANDS OF THE CROWN OF ARAGON (12TH-13TH CENTURIES)

This study explores three interconnected subjects concerning the general theme of heterodoxy in the Thirteenth Century: the Albigensian Crusade; the increase of heresy in the lands of the Crown of Aragon, and the development of the Inquisition. Firstly, we ask if the decisions taken by James I were the necessary consequence of the defeat of the battle of Muret in order to avoid a direct conflict with the papacy and France. Second, we examine where heresy as present and absent in the lands of the Crown. Third, we suggest reasons why the inquisition took a distinctive form in the lands of the Crown.