The Spanish Inquisition

Roth, Cecil

ISBN 10: 0393002551 / ISBN 13: 9780393002553

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

About this Item

Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, highlighting of text, writing in margins. No missing pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spanish Inquisition
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393002551
• ISBN 13: 9780393002553
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

No other organization for religious persecution ever equaled the Spanish Inquisition in intensity, scope, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

From its establishment in 1478 until its abolishment in 1834, no one expected its tribunals, which relentlessly sought to destroy everyone who was not a Roman Catholic Christian.

The terrible history of the Inquisition is told here by the distinguished scholar Cecil Roth, who was Reader in Jewish Studies at Oxford University.

From the Back Cover

The long series of events leading up to the establishment of the Inquisition and the following three and a half centuries of torment that spread from Spain to Portugal and even to the New World are here documented by Cecil Roth of Oxford, one of the world's great authorities on Jewish history.