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Once they had assumed power across Europe, Christians quickly adopted the practices of their former Roman oppressors by instituting burning for a wide range of confirmed or perceived offenses. Civil authorities burned persons judged to be [[heresy|heretics]] under the medieval [[Inquisition]]. Burning heretics had become customary practice in the latter half of the twelfth century in continental Europe, and death by burning became statutory punishment from the early 13th century. | Once they had assumed power across Europe, Christians quickly adopted the practices of their former Roman oppressors by instituting burning for a wide range of confirmed or perceived offenses. Civil authorities burned persons judged to be [[heresy|heretics]] under the medieval [[Inquisition]]. Burning heretics had become customary practice in the latter half of the twelfth century in continental Europe, and death by burning became statutory punishment from the early 13th century. | ||
As some in England at the start of the 15th century grew weary of the teachings of | As some in England at the start of the 15th century grew weary of the teachings of John Wycliffe and the Lollards, kings, priests, and parliaments reacted with fire. In 1401, Parliament passed the De heretico comburendo act, which can be loosely translated as "Regarding the burning of heretics." Lollard persecution would continue for over a hundred years in England. The Fire and Faggot Parliament met in May 1414 at Grey Friars Priory in Leicester to lay out the notorious Suppression of Heresy Act 1414, enabling the burning of heretics by making the crime enforceable by the Justices of the peace. John Oldcastle, a prominent Lollard leader, was not saved from the gallows by his old friend King Henry V. Oldcastle was hanged and his gallows burned in 1417. | ||
[[Jan Hus]] was burned at the stake after being accused at the Roman Catholic Council of Constance (1414–18) of [[heresy]]. The ecumenical council also decreed that the remains of John Wycliffe, dead for 30 years, should be exhumed and burned. (This posthumous execution was carried out in 1428.) | [[Jan Hus]] was burned at the stake after being accused at the Roman Catholic Council of Constance (1414–18) of [[heresy]]. The ecumenical council also decreed that the remains of John Wycliffe, dead for 30 years, should be exhumed and burned. (This posthumous execution was carried out in 1428.) | ||