Helen Rawlings

The Spanish Inquisition (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges the reputation of the Spanish Inquisition asan instrument of religious persecution, torture and repressionandlooks at its wider role as an educative force in society. * * A reassessment of the history of the Spanish Inquisition. * Challenges the reputation of the Inquisition as an instrumentof religious persecution, torture and repression. * Looks at the wider role of the Inquisition as an educativeforce in society. * Draws on the findings of recent research by American, Britishand European scholars. * Includes original documentary evidence in translation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 08.05.2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405142922
• Artikelnr.: 38281952

Autorenporträt

Helen Rawlings is a Lecturer in Spanish Studies at the University of Leicester. Her previous publications include Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Spain (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps and Plates.

Acknowledgements.

Chronology.

1. The Historiography of the Inquisition.

2. The Inquisition as an Institution.

3. The Inquisition and the Converso.

4. The Inquisition and the Morisco.

5. The Inquisition and Protestantism.

6. The Inquisition and Minor Heresy.

7. The Decline and Abolition of the Inquisition.

Glossary.

Bibliography and References.

Index

Rezensionen

"Rawlings has made a valuable contribution to the field. She hassuccessfully constructed a thought-provoking, analyticalprécis of some of the most essential studies of her subject.She has emphasized the complicated and contingent nature of theInquisition's practices in a manner accessible to anyinterested reader." (European History Quarterly, January2009)

"Offers insights into a much mythologised and malignedphenomenon and, historiographically, it's bang up to date." (BBCHistory Magazine)

"Helen Rawling's The Spanish Inquisition is an excellentintroduction to this complex and controversial subject." (H-NetReviews)

"Solid virtues and thoughtful care ... have gone into thiscontribution." (Bulletin of Spanish Studies)

"Makes for compelling reading and for a perfect test caseagainst which to measure all the revisionist history that Rawlingsso aptly summarises." (Journal of EcclesiasticalHistory)