How Did The Inquisition Build Religious Uniformity?

During the 13th and through to the 14th century catholic church authorities turned their focus to creating a united religiously bound civilization, acting only upon the fundamental principles of Christianity. The 14th century church enforced religious unity through the inquisition, and was mostly successful in doing so.

The author Christine Caldwell Ames1 showed that the church used the inquisition as a force to create a cohesive religious civilization during the 13th and 14th century. Further evidence of the use of the inquisition to enforce religious uniformity is found in the contemporary account of Bernard Gui, a Dominican inquisitor.2 The Inquisition was operated by a religious order known as the Dominicans, who were a part of the Catholic Church answerable only to the Pope. “Adopted by the church as one of several responses to heretical movements that emerged in the high Middle
The resistance towards the inquisition was predominantly in the towns of Albi, Toulouse, Carcassonne, and Narbonne in the 1230’s and all demonstrate the rage towards the inquisitions unjust practices. 11 The anti-inquisitorial movement of Carcassonne gained momentum as a Franciscan friar Bernard Délicieux became leader of this movement, 12 this greatly signifies that other religious orders and levels of the church were greatly opposed to the Dominicans. Sermons performed by Bernard Délicieux intentionally to stir up the people of the movement against the inquisition and southern France will become a war zone between the people and the church for control of this area. The acts of violence seemingly appeared to be one-way and the members of the inquisition defenseless against the