The Spanish Inquisition.
History abounds in "private inquisitors" who took the lives of heretics from time to time in an excess of religious zeal, but no other organization for religious persecution ever equaled the Spanish Inquisition in intensity, scope, or efficiency of operation. In 1478 Pope Sixtus IV issued...
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New York :
Norton,
[1964]
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| Series: | The Norton library ;
N255 |
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Table of Contents:
- Pride and precedent: the Spanish scene
- Torquemada
- Inquisitional noontide
- The unholy office
- Quemadero
- The Marranos
- The tragedy of the Moriscos
- The protestant martyrs
- Alarms and diversions
- New worlds to conquer
- The age of unreason
- Decline and fall.