Spanish Inquisition
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The terrible history of the Inquisition is told here by the distinguished scholar Cecil Roth, who was Reader in Jewish Studies at Oxford University. The text is illustrated with documents and prints from the author's private collection, and two appendices provide the text of an actual "program" of an auto da fe as well as excerpts from a specific trial.
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Rated 5 starsFabulous, a book on the Jewish Experience in Iberia
Dr. Cecil Roth [1899-1970] has put out numerous books on the topic of the Jews. He was educated in Great Britain, and lived both abroad and in the United States. He was a foremost authority on the history of world Jewry. In this book, Dr. Cecil Roth documents the long series of events leading up to the Inquisition and the three-and-a-half centuries of torment that comprise this bloody epic of human history. It is done objectify,...
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Rated 4 starsSolid if unspectacular history of the Spanish Inquistion
If one is looking for a solid history of the Spanish Inquisition that will introduce the reader with the main events and features of that peculiar institution, one could do worse than read this book. One could also do better, by looking instead at Peters INQUISITION or Henry Kammen's THE SPANISH INQUISITION. But since neither of those books is perfect (Peters covers the Inquisition in all its forms, and as a result the Spanish...
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Rated 5 starsI love this book
I read this book in prep school many moons ago and continue to read to it. It gives an excellent overview of the church and its influence over the populous. It displays during royalist times how the church worked for Ferninand and Isabel and suceeding ancestors of Spanish royality and reduced the role of secular government. The last chapter is riveting "the decline and fall" as it shows how secular government tried to overtake...
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Rated 4 starsWell written, highly recommended.
I bought this book for an overview of the history of the Inquisition, and one reason I selected it was because of the date it was written (1937), only about a hundred years after the end of the Inquisition. Roth's research in non-trivial. Of particular interest are the appendices which contain an actual record of a specific trial and a "Lista" of 1731.
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