num_pages: 384
description: This impressive volume is actually three histories in 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.
language: English
title: Inquisition
titlecomplete: Inquisition
genres: History, Religion, Catholic, Medieval, European History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 72
publisher: University of California Press