Original sentence: Artistic representations of the auto de fe usually depict torture and the burning at the steak.The phrase myths of the inquisition is used to refer to a form of historical revisionism challenging the accepted history of the Inquisition and in particular the role of the Catholic Church
Edited sentence: Artistic representations of the auto de fe usually depict torture and the burning at the stake.Peters makes as distinction without a difference.Scholars investigating historical revisionism re-examine facts, documents, histories, etc, to bring about greater historical accuracy and understanding.The artistic representations are clearly intended to depict the inquisition as a whole and not just the religious act.The phrase myths of the inquisition, and its many varities characterized by some combination of the words "myth" and "inqusition", identifies a notable recent historiographical trend to re-examine current ideas about the Inquisitions.The phrase, as used by mainstream historians, does not connote in any way that the inquisition was a myth, but that some details of what actually happened are not based on factual evidence.This re-analysis of the historical inquisitions has produced some of the best published research in historical revisionism