Examples of heretics in the following topics:
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- By contrast, torturous executions were typically public, and woodcuts of English prisoners being hanged, drawn and quartered show large crowds of spectators, as do paintings of Spanish auto-da-fé executions, in which heretics were burned at the stake.
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- In the meantime, the faculty had condemned the forty-five articles and added several other theses, deemed heretical, which had originated with Hus.
- Wycliffe, who died in 1384, was also declared a heretic by the Council of Constance and Wycliffe's corpse was exhumed and burned.
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- At the fifteenth session, on June 5, 1409, the Council of Pisa deposed the two pontiffs as schismatical, heretical, perjured, and scandalous.
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- By the turn of the millennium, the Eastern and Western Roman Empires had been gradually separating along religious fault lines for centuries, beginning with Emperor Leo III's pioneering of the Byzantine Iconoclasm in 730 CE, in which he declared the worship of religious images to be heretical.
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- Continuing his mission to isolate and attack the Dutch Republic, which Louis considered to be trading rivals, seditious republicans and Protestant heretics, the French king made another move on the Spanish Netherlands.
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- While the idea of witchcraft began to mingle with the persecution of heretics even in the 14th century, the beginning of the witch-hunts as a phenomenon in its own right become apparent during the first half of the 15th century in south-eastern France and western Switzerland, in communities of the Western Alps, in what was at the time Burgundy and Savoy.
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- After the failure of the Fourth Crusade to hold Constantinople or reach Jerusalem, Innocent III launched the first crusade against heretics, the Albigensian Crusade, against the Cathars in France and the County of Toulouse.
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- A few crusades, such as the Fourth Crusade, were waged within Christendom against groups that were considered heretical and schismatic.
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- It began as a militant pilgrimage and was later condemned by the Catholic Church as heretical.
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- This internal division was dangerous for the Byzantine Empire, which was under constant threat from external enemies, especially as many of the areas most likely to be lost to the empire were the regions that were in favour of Monophysitism, and who considered the religious hierarchy at Constantinople to be heretics only interested in crushing their faith.