Inquisition
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520066308 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Good, all good.. If you're interested in the subject, this is essential reading There's nothing much I can say here that the other four- and five-star reviewers haven't said already, so let me just add three things:1) Peters' book makes good use of original sources close to the time of the events, an essential characteristic of reliable historical accounts.2) Other reviewers have given this book a low rating because they tho. Convincing, especially after reading Wm Walsh Marshall Fritz My introduction to the notion that most of us believe a lotof exaggerations and falsehoods about "the Inquisition"was William Walsh's book, "Characters of the Inquisition."Walsh was an ardent Catholic and a great admirer of Queen Isabella.As a novice reader on the Inquisition, I had littleway to gauge how serious might be his bias. Then, along ca
Edward Peters, author of the highly acclaimed Torture, is Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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.
From Publishers Weekly Inquisition history, a developing field, provides a key to the "understanding of past societies in their entirety." Peters, professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Torture, demonstrates this key function as he traces the transformation of the inquisition tribunal from a simple legal procedural of ancient Rome to its employ as a feared instrument of enforcing religious orthodoxy in the medieval period, to its symbolic use in the works of such contemporary writers as Kafka, Koestler and Miller. In Peters's view, the societal divisions brought about by the Reformation in the 16th century provide the grounds for centuries of polemic, fiction and a vivid mythology that caused the term "The Inquisition" to be persistently associated with coercive authority that attempts to stifle free expression. . Richly detaile