Inquisition

Author/Contributor(s):	Peters, Edward
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	04/14/1989
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This impressive volume is actually three histories in one: of the legal procedures, personnel, and institutions that shaped the inquisitorial tribunals from Rome to early modern Europe; of the myth of The Inquisition, from its origins with the anti-Hispanists and religious reformers of the sixteenth century to its embodiment in literary and artistic masterpieces of the nineteenth century; and of how the myth itself became the foundation for a "history" of the inquisitions.