Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition A History
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780766131613
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Europe; Europe - Spain & Portugal; History - General History
First sentence: IN an endeavour to trace the Inquisition to its source it is not necessary to go as far back into antiquity as went Paramo ; nor yet is it possible to agree with him that God Himself was the first inquisitor, that the first "Act of Faith" was executed upon Adam and Eve, and that their expulsion from Eden is a proper precedent for the confiscation of the property of heretics.