A clear, historical look at the rise, rules, and cost of the Inquisition .
This book maps how a tribunal gained power, how it operated, and the human price of its judgment. This edition examines the Inquisition as a legal and social force, tracing its beginnings, procedures, and the consequences for those tried. It presents a critical view of how authority, religion, and state power intersected in historical contexts, using contemporary records to illuminate the tribunal’s reach and its impact on communities.
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The book, first published in 1731, touches all the Inquisition's details in 116 chapters. From the doctrine of Jesus Christ and the Arian persecution of the Orthodox, the speedy progress of Inquisition in Europe and the wars against the Waldenses, Albigenses, Apostolics, Templars, Beguins; the organization - from the Ministers and Inquisitors to the Familiars and Cross-Bearers; types of Heretics and their punishments; from the arts of the Inquisitors used to draw confessions to the canonical purgation, torture and the Act of Faith.
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