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World History
The Inquisition
Discusses the establishment of the Inquisition in the twelfth century to protect traditional Catholic teachings, and describes how efforts to suppress heresy led to the systematic torture and execution of suspected heretics
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127 pages, Library Binding
Published January 1, 1995
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November 24, 2023
I find this book to be offensive to knowledge. Explicitly biased against the Catholic Church. All Catholic actors are painted with the same base and vulgar motivations. All heretics are free thinkers. The outlook sees all decisions as based on power.
A good example of what happens when an author only uses revisionist historians as sources. Explained that there are vast records but never cited them. Uses extraordinary numbers of cases of witchcraft for example, a million burned at the stake?!? Really!?!
If you are unfamiliar with the Black Legend, this book is a classic example. (The Spanish are backwards, uneducated, cruel by nature. The English are enlightened and good. The French Revolution was a great thing!) Testimony of the two victims that survived are both English. French soldiers saw the documents of how many people the Spanish killed, and they were terrible, so they destroyed all the evidence. Apparently that is not suspicious to the author.
In honor of the emphasis of the index and banned books, I will be throwing away my copy of this book.
A good example of what happens when an author only uses revisionist historians as sources. Explained that there are vast records but never cited them. Uses extraordinary numbers of cases of witchcraft for example, a million burned at the stake?!? Really!?!
If you are unfamiliar with the Black Legend, this book is a classic example. (The Spanish are backwards, uneducated, cruel by nature. The English are enlightened and good. The French Revolution was a great thing!) Testimony of the two victims that survived are both English. French soldiers saw the documents of how many people the Spanish killed, and they were terrible, so they destroyed all the evidence. Apparently that is not suspicious to the author.
In honor of the emphasis of the index and banned books, I will be throwing away my copy of this book.
March 29, 2019
It is a must read for everyone. Not just people interested in history.
The book is very much engaging.
The book is very much engaging.
October 28, 2023
از کتاب های خوب سری تاریخ جهان نشر ققنوس است و درباره تفتیش عقاید اطلاعات مختصر و مفید میده اگه به تاریخ قرون وسطی علاقمند هستید حتما توصیه می کنم این کتاب را بخونید
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