A Short History of the Inquisition
Author: Eugene Montague Macdonald
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 840
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Author: Eugene Montague Macdonald
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 840
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 645
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anonymous
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9781497879751
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Author: Joseph Pérez
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781861976222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew institutions in Western history have as fearful a reputation as the Spanish Inquisition. For centuries Europe trembled at its name. Nobody was safe in this terrifying battle for the unachievable aim of unified faith. Established by papal bull in 1478, the first task of the Spanish Inquisition was to question Jewish converts to Christianity and to expose and execute those found guilty of reversion. It then turned on Spanish Jews in general, sending three hundred thousand into exile. Next in line were humanists and Lutherans. No rank was exempt. Children informed on their parents, merchants on their rivals, and priests upon their bishops. Those denounced were guilty unless they could prove their innocence. Few did. Two hundred lashes were a minor punishment; 31,913 were led to the stake at public displays, the last a mad witch in 1781. The Inquisition policed what was written, read and taught, and kept an eye on sexual behaviour. Napoleon tried to abolish it in 1808, and failed. Joseph Perez tells the history of the Spanish Inquisition from its medieval beginnings to its nineteenth-century ending. He discovers its origins in fear and jealousy and its longevity in usefulness to the state. He explores the inner workings of its councils, courts and finances, and shows how its officers, inquisitors and leaders lived and worked. He describes its techniques of interrogation, disorientation and torture, and shows how it refined displays of punishment as instruments of social control. The author ends his fascinating account by assessing the impact of the Inquisition over three and a half centuries on Spain's culture, economy and intellectual life.
Author: Henry Kamen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0300075227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirty-five years ago, Kamen wrote a study of the Inquisition that received high praise. This present work, based on over 30 years of new research, is not simply a complete revision of the earlier book. Innovative in its presentation, point of view, information, and themes, it will revolutionize further study in the field.
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 645
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cullen Murphy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0618091564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA narrative history of the Inquisition, and an examination of the influence it exerted on contemporary society, by the author of ARE WE ROME?
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 858
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benzion Netanyahu
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1432
ISBN-13: 9780940322394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spanish Inquisition remains a fearful symbol of state terror. Its principal target was theconversos, descendants of Spanish Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity some three generations earlier. Since thousands of them confessed to charges of practicing Judaism in secret, historians have long understood the Inquisition as an attempt to suppress the Jews of Spain. In this magisterial reexamination of the origins of the Inquisition, Netanyahu argues for a different view: that the conversos were in fact almost all genuine Christians who were persecuted for political ends. The Inquisition's attacks not only on the conversos' religious beliefs but also on their "impure blood" gave birth to an anti-Semitism based on race that would have terrible consequences for centuries to come. This book has become essential reading and an indispensable reference book for both the interested layman and the scholar of history and religion.
Author: Sir Alexander Gordon Cardew
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Published: 1933
Total Pages: 115
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