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

Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost...
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Author: Cullen Murphy
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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Murphy, Cullen

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

CHF 28.40

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

CHF 28.40
Author: Cullen Murphy
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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, censorship, and "scientific" interrogation. As time went on, its methods and mindset spread far beyond the Church to become tools of secular persecution. Traveling from freshly opened Vatican archives to the detention camps of Guantánamo to the filing cabinets of the Third Reich, the acclaimed writer Cullen Murphy traces the Inquisition and its legacy, showing that not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, but in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever.

With the combination of vivid immediacy and learned analysis that characterized his acclaimed Are We Rome?, Murphy puts a human face on a familiar but little-known piece of our past and argues that only by understanding the Inquisition can we hope to explain the making of the present.

Author: Cullen Murphy
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 01/22/2013
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780547844589


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/24/2013 pg. 24

About the Author
Murphy, Cullen: - 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.

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