Inquisition The Reign of Fear  -  Toby Green

KORTE INHOUD

A break-out book by one of our best narrative non-fiction authorsEverybody has heard of the Inquisition. It was an institution that pursued heretics, philandering priests and sexual deviants in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America for a period of over 350 years, changing its focus with the times and enduring stubbornly into the nineteenth century. Today the word implies dread, fear and a withheld threat of torture. But who were its targets? Why did it provoke such fear? How and where did it operate? Why w...
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2008 Uitgever: Macmillan 458 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0330443356 ISBN-13: 9780330443357