How to Understand the Spanish Inquisition
Known to most people today (if at all) as the punchline in a very funny Monty Python sketch, the Spanish Inquisition was taken quite seriously by Spanish subjects who fell under its sway in the late 15th century. Essentially, the Inquisition was ... [... more]
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Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and ...
Readable explanation of Southern French Inquisition: Given's book discusses the papal inquisition in southern France through the lens of the inqusitors' methods and goals, attempts by others to turn the inquisition against their foes, and resistance to [... more]
$21.00
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Harlequin (inquisition War Trilogy)
Harlequin (inquisition War Trilogy) [... more]
$23.99
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E.W. Heine
The scene is Rothenburg ob der Tauber at the end of the 14th century: the love between the beautiful Judith, a Spanish Jew who has lost her family to the Inquisition, and Attila, a Christian, seems doomed. But against all opposition, the couple ... [... more]
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Jean Stoner
A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to ... [... more]
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John Heilbron
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo ... [... more]
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Miss Midori & The Jazz Inquisition
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How to Make Candy for a Spanish Inquisition Party
If you have ever wanted to have the perfect theme party, then you know that the snacks and candy you serve is almost as important as the costumes and decorations. If you like to bake or are a closeted sugar confectioner, then you can easily make ... [... more]
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How to Make Snacks for a Spanish Inquisition Party
You can't have a great theme party, without all of the snacks to go along with it. You need things like Burning Witches and the Rack is you're in a wild enough mood to throw a Spanish Inquisition party. You can make these snacks out of your ... [... more]
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The Anti-Capitalistic Inquisition
There is scarcely one month without a corporate executive being charged with some crime or jailed for something. The Fraud is a serious matter; or, perhaps, should we say, serious fraud is a serious matter. People generally exaggerate their ... [... more]
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Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition
Amazon.com Review: Red Scare is a vivid oral history of a time when subscribers to the Nation, devotees of foreign films, and even those who supported Franklin Roosevelt's fourth term came under suspicion of being Communists or fellow travelers, a time [... more]
$42.00
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Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and ...
Anne Schutte's Masterpiece: Aspiring Saints by Anne Jacobson Schutte, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, presents an interesting look at the peculiar phenomenon of pretense of holiness. Anne Schutte is an established historian, her [... more]
$50.00
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