After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk - later canonized as St Dominic - took up the cudgels by establishing a kind of secret police to ferret out heresy - thus began the infamous Inquisition. Baigent and Leigh tell the whole extraordinary story, taking it on into the nineteenth century and showing how after the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility in 1870 the Vatican attempted to establish new authorities that were an intellectual equivalent of the Inquisition. The Inquisition offers a fascinating narrative account of one of the most influential and horrifying movements in the history of western Europe.
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After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk took up the cudgels by establishing a kind of secret police to ferret out heresy. Thus began the infamous Inquisition. This title tells the story, taking it on into the 19th century and showing how the Vatican attempted to establish new authorities.
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A fiery zeal for the faith; origins of the Inquisition; enemies of the Black Friars; the Spanish Inquisition; saving the New World; a crusade against witchcraft; fighting the heresy of Protestantism; fear of the mystics; Freemasonry and the Inquisition; the conquest of the papal states; infallibility; the Holy Office; the Dead Sea Scrolls; the congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; visions of Mary; the Pope as the problem.
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Product details

ISBN
9780140274660
Published
2000-11-02
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Weight
500 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
35 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
352

Biographical note

Michael Baigent is a New Zealander who has lived in the UK since 1976, and Richard Leigh an American who has also been here for many years. Together they collaborated on the international bestseller THE HOLY BLOOD and THE HOLY GRAIL. Baigent lives in Winchester, Hampshire, Leigh in London NW3.