This impressive volume is actually three histories in one: of the legal procedures, personnel, and institutions that shaped the inquisitorial tribunals from Rome to early modern Europe; of the myth of The Inquisition, from its origins with the anti-Hispanists and religious reformers of the sixteenth century to its embodiment in literary and artistic masterpieces of the nineteenth century; and, of how the myth itself became the foundation for a 'history' of the inquisitions.
- ISBN10 0520909275
- ISBN13 9780520909274
- Publish Date 15 March 1989
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 384
- Language English