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π Fiction
π
2012;2013
π Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Mariner Books [u.a
π English
β 232 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
God's jury the inquisition and the making of the modern world
β Scribed by Cullen Murphy
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Mariner Books [u.a
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Edition
- 1. Mariner Books ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0547607822
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The acclaimed author of Are We Rome? brings his highly praised blend of deep research, colorful travelogue, and insightful political analysis to a new history of the Inquisition.
We think of the Inquisition as a holy war fought in the Middle Ages. But, as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new book, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever. Traveling from freshly opened Vatican archives to the detention camps of Guantanamo to the filing cabinets of the Third Reich, he traces the Inquisition and its legacy.
God's Jury encompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galileo, and Graham Greene. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews--and with burning at the stake--its targets were more numerous and...
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