God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World - Couverture rigide

Murphy, Cullen

 
9780713995343: God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0713995343 ISBN 13 : 9780713995343
Editeur : Allen Lane, 2012

Synopsis

For centuries states have used their power to censor information, to conduct surveillance, to impose belief, to manipulate and to punish. Cullen Murphy's extraordinary, provocative new book explores the idea that the Inquisition - the Catholic body that existed in Europe (and beyond) for over 700 years - is not a medieval oddity, but is intrinsically bound up with the creation of the modern world.

God's Jury shows how the creation of the Inquisition epitomized the moment when the West passed from one kind of world to another, and when persecution acquired a distinctly modern platform: requiring record-keeping, a law system, communication structures, bureaucracy, an educated professional class - and a terrifying sense of certainty.

Exploring the Inquisition from its establishment in 1231 onwards, Murphy argues that not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, its spirit lingers on in the modern world too. Travelling from freshly opened Vatican archives to the detention camps of Guantánamo and the filing cabinets of the Third Reich, he traces the Inquisition's legacy to show how, as time went on, its techniques became the standard operating procedure of secular persecution.

With vivid immediacy and authority, God's Jury portrays the Inquisition as a new phase in the battle between the individual private conscience and the forces that try to contain it. It is, Murphy argues, a central contest of the modern era and the centuries that lie ahead.

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À propos de l?auteur

Cullen Murphy is Vanity Fair's editor at large and the author of Are We Rome? and The Word According to Eve. He was previously managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly.

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Éditeur
Allen Lane
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0713995343
ISBN 13 
9780713995343
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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