Michael C. Thomsett - The Inquisition. A History [2010][A]

Book Description
Publication Date: April 26, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0786444096 | ISBN-13: 978-0786444090
Although the Catholic Church today tolerates beliefs and religious practices at odds with its own, for several centuries it enforced its doctrine with threats, excommunication, banishment, imprisonment, seizure of lands, torture, and death. This book explains the origins of the Roman Catholic Inquisition in the 13th century, the expansion of the movement, its campaign against Jews in Spain, its response to the Reformation, and its eventual relaxation as a brutal instrument of the Church against perceived heresy.

About the Author
Michael C. Thomsett is the author of more than 70 books, including four specialized dictionaries and five books of quotations published by McFarland. He writes fulltime and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.