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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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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.

The Inquisition

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 11 February 2000
      ISBN-13 9780140274660
      978-0140274660
      ISBN-10 0140274669
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      Christianity History of religion

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      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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