description: Jean Plaidy, with all her novelist's perception and skill, tells the story of Ferdinand and Isabella, the monarchs who brought the Inquisition into Spain in the fifteenth- century, and allowed it to flourish so hideously.Isabella was a pious and fervent Catholic who detested the corrupt decadence of her brother's court at Castile : when she came to power she was determined to stamp Spain irrevocably with themark of her faith.The Inquisitors from Rome brought torture, humiliation and a fiery death to thousands - arid swelled the coffers of the state with the confiscated riches of their victims. But when Isabella's confessor, the remorseless Tomas de Torquemada, became Inquisitor General, a new era of terror began, more extreme and more ruthless than all that had gone before . . ..
language: English
title: The Rise of the Spanish Inquisition
titlecomplete: The Rise of the Spanish Inquisition (Spanish Inquistion, #1)
genres: Spain, Historical, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 41
series: Spanish Inquisition
publisher: Robert Hale Ltd