A History Of The Inquisition

Author : Joseph Pérez
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861976222
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Inquisition written by Joseph Pérez and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few 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
ISBN 13 : 0300075227
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Inquisition written by Henry Kamen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-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.

Author : Brenda Stalcup
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780737704860
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inquisition written by Brenda Stalcup and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise, formation, spread, and aftermath of the Spanish Inquistion in the 13th century.

Author : Edward Peters
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066304
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inquisition written by Edward Peters and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-04-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume is actually three histories in one: of the legal procedures, personnel, and institutions that shaped the inquisitorial tribunals from Rome to early modern Europe; of the myth of The Inquisition, from its origins with the anti-Hispanists and religious reformers of the sixteenth century to its embodiment in literary and artistic masterpieces of the nineteenth century; and of how the myth itself became the foundation for a "history" of the inquisitions.

Author : Benzion Netanyahu
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322394
Total Pages : 1432 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain written by Benzion Netanyahu and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 : Henry Kamen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300180519
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Inquisition written by Henry Kamen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences for Jewish culture, measures its impact on Spain's intellectual life, and firmly rebuts a variety of myths and exaggerations that have distorted understandings of the Inquisition. He concludes with disturbing reflections on the impact of state security organizations in our own time"--

Author : Cecil Roth
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393002553
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Inquisition written by Cecil Roth and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1964 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its establishment in 1478 until its abolishment in 1834, no one expected its tribunals, which relentlessly sought to destroy everyone who was not a Roman Catholic Christian. The terrible history of the Inquisition is told here by the distinguished scholar Cecil Roth, who was Reader in Jewish Studies at Oxford University.

Author : Joseph Pérez
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300107906
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Inquisition written by Joseph Pérez and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of the Spanish Inquisition--a terrifying battle for a unified faith.

Author : Cullen Murphy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618091564
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Jury written by Cullen Murphy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the Inquisition, and an examination of the influence it exerted on contemporary society, by the author of ARE WE ROME?

Author : Kenneth L. Bartolotta
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1534560505
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inquisition written by Kenneth L. Bartolotta and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion can be a force for good, but when those in command seek to increase their control, it can become a dangerous tool. This volume explores the political power the Catholic Church possessed in medieval Europe and the lengths it went to in order to keep and expand that influence. Full-color photos, quotes from primary sources, and a timeline of important events supplement the main text to give readers a better understanding of the perils that can occur when an institution abuses its power.