God's Jury The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

Name: God's Jury The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780547844589

ISBN-10: 0547844581

ISBN-13: 9780547844589

Edition: 2011

Authors: Cullen Murphy

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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 and its techniques more ambitious. The Inquisition pioneered surveillance and censorship and "scientific" interrogation. As time went on, its methods and mindset spread far beyond the Church to become tools of secular persecution.With vivid immediacy and authority, Cullen Murphy puts a human face on a familiar but little-known piece of our past.God’s Juryencompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galileo, and Graham…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Cullen Murphy is the editor at large at Vanity Fair and the former managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly . He is the author of Are We Rome?, The Word According to Eve , and the essay collection Just Curious .