God's jury  -  Cullen Murphy

the inquisition and the making of the modern world

KORTE INHOUD

"We think of the Inquisition as a holy war fought in the Middle Ages. But, as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new book, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever. Traveling from freshly opened Vatican archives to the detention camps of Guantánamo to the filing cabinets of the Third Reich, he traces the Inquisition and its legacy. God’s Jury encompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galile...
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2012 Uitgever: Allen Lane 310 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0713995343 ISBN-13: 9780713995343