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The Spanish Inquisition : a historical revision / Henry Kamen.

Title
The Spanish Inquisition : a historical revision / Henry Kamen.
Author
Kamen, Henry
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.

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Description
xi, 490 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences for Jewish culture, measures its impact on Spain's intellectual life, and firmly rebuts a variety of myths and exaggerations that have distorted understandings of the Inquisition. He concludes with disturbing reflections on the impact of state security organizations in our own time"--
Subject
  • Inquisition > Spain
  • HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
  • HISTORY / Medieval
  • RELIGION / Christian Church / History
  • Spain > Church history
Genre/Form
Church history
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Faith and Doubt in the Mediterranean -- The Great Dispersion -- The Coming of the Inquisition -- An Enduring Crisis -- Excluding the Reformation -- The Impact on Literature and Science -- The End of Morisco Spain -- The Politics of Heresy -- Crime and Punishment -- The Image and Reality of Power -- Gender, Sexuality and Witchcraft -- Race Purity and Its Critics -- The Religion of the People -- Twilight of the Holy Office -- Inventing the Inquisition.
ISBN
  • 9780300180510 (pbk.)
  • 0300180519 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2013046026
OCLC
  • 863632905
  • SCSB-11875128
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library