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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"From Torquemada to Guantánamo and beyond, Cullen Murphy finds the 'inquisitorial impulse' alive, and only too well, in our world" (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money ). 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, its techniques were more ambitious,...
Author
Publisher
Hauraki Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this penetrating study of the Inquisition, Elphege Vacandard delves into the Catholic Church's dark past. "The history of the Inquisition is still to be written. It is not our purpose to attempt it; our ambition is more modest. But we wish to picture this institution in its historical setting, to show how it originated, and especially to indicate its relation to the Church's notion of the coercive power prevalent in the Middle Ages. For as [Henry...
5) Casanova
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, 2005
Language
English
Description
Casanova, the fabled romantic, strives to discover the real meaning of love after failing to win the affection of a particular Venetian woman.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of NPR's 50 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Decade: A fifteenth-century palace mapmaker must hide his powers in the time of the Inquisition... Award-winning author G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King , an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula...
Author
Series
Song of Montsegur volume 1
Publisher
Kunati
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Historical thriller focused on the 13th century Cathar crusade, the development of tarot cards, Pope Innocent IV, Saint Louis of France, the Holy Grail, based on true history"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How Far Would You Go To Stay True to Yourself? Spain, 1492. On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba stands at a crossroads. In a country violently divided by religion, she must either convert to Christianity and stay safe, or remain a Jew and risk everything. It's a choice she's been walking toward her whole life, from the days of her youth when her family lit the Shabbat candles in secret. Back then, she saw the vast possibility...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The most evil book ever conceived falls into the hands of the leader of the Spanish Inquisition in this ingenious bibliomystery from the bestselling creator of Repairman Jack. In the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition spreads terror throughout the land, with Prior Tomás de Torquemada serving as the ultimate judge of who will live and who will be consigned to the purifying flames. Never has Torquemada questioned his own faith or his sacred...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery, travels to London in the summer of 1450 to purchase funeral vestments for the Duke of Suffolk, and becomes caught up in a web of intrigue and murder centered around the widowed seamstress Anne Blakhall and her lover, Daved Weir, a merchant hiding the fact that he is a Jew.
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