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4 days ago · Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public capital punishment, and many societies have employed it as a punishment for and warning against crimes such as treason, heresy, and witchcraft.
4 days ago · Witches being burned at the stake, colour drawing, 16th century. (more) Because of the continuity of witch trials with those for heresy, it is impossible to say when the first witch trial occurred.
- Jeffrey Burton Russell
3 days ago · He was tried for heresy (particularly because of his doctrine of the church) and condemned, and on July 6, 1415, he was burned at the stake. His main prosecutors, notably including Jean de Gerson , chancellor of the University of Paris, were also the leaders of the reform movement at the Council of Constance.
5 days ago · Malleus maleficarum. Title page from a 1669 edition of the Malleus maleficarum, a handbook on witchcraft originally published in 1487. (more) Malleus maleficarum, detailed legal and theological document (c. 1486) regarded as the standard handbook on witchcraft, including its detection and its extirpation, until well into the 18th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · Burning at the stake was the standard punishment by the English state for obstinate or relapsed, major seditious or proselytizing heresy, and continued to be used by both Catholics and Protestants during the religious upheaval of the following decades.
3 days ago · She was declared guilty and burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, aged about nineteen. In 1456, an inquisitorial court reinvestigated Joan's trial and overturned the verdict, declaring that it was tainted by deceit and procedural errors.
3 days ago · Destined to save the French from English incursion, she was burnt at the stake in 1431 at the age of 19 after a corrupt Church trial found her guilty of heresy. The trial would later be nullified by the Church and 500 years later, in 1920, Joan of Arc was declared a saint by Pope Benedict XV.
