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the Inquisition and the making of the modern world

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An edition of God's jury (2012)

God's jury

the Inquisition and the making of the modern world

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"We think of the Inquisition as a holy war fought in the Middle Ages. But, as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new book, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever. Traveling from freshly opened Vatican archives to the detention camps of Guantánamo to the filing cabinets of the Third Reich, he traces the Inquisition and its legacy. God’s Jury encompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galileo, and Graham Greene. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews—and with burning at the stake—its targets were more numerous and its techniques more ambitious. The Inquisition pioneered surveillance and censorship and “scientific” interrogation. As time went on, its methods and mindset spread far beyond the Church to become tools of secular persecution. With vivid immediacy and authority, Murphy puts a human face on a familiar but little-known piece of our past, and argues that only by understanding the Inquisition can we hope to explain the making of the present" --Publisher description.

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Pages
310

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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
2013, Penguin Books, Limited
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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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God's jury: the Inquisition and the making of the modern world
2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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God's jury: the inquisition and the making of the modern world
2012, Allen Lane
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Table of Contents

Standard operating procedure: the paper trail
A stake in the ground: the medieval Inquisition
Queen of torments: the Spanish Inquisition
That Satanic device: the Roman Inquisition
To the ends of the earth: the global Inquisition
The verdict of history: the secular Inquisition
With God on our side: in praise of doubt.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-295) and index.

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Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
272/.2
Library of Congress
BX1713 .M87 2012, BX1713.M87 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
310 p. ;
Number of pages
310

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25194284M
Internet Archive
godsjuryinquisit0000murp
ISBN 13
9780618091560
LCCN
2011028599
OCLC/WorldCat
699759074

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