A Short History of the Inquisition
Subtitle: What It Was And What It Did
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 828
ISBN-13: 9781417951499
Subjects: American history; United States - General; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA
First sentence: At root the word Inquisition signifies as little of evil as the primitive "inquire," or the adjective "inquisitive"; but as words, like persons, lose their characters by bad associations, so "Inquisition" has become infamous and hideous as the name of an executive department of the Roman Catholic church.