{"product_id":"the-spanish-inquisition-9780631205999","title":"The Spanish Inquisition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* A reassessment of the history of the Spanish Inquisition.  * Challenges the reputation of the Inquisition as an instrument of religious persecution, torture and repression.  * Looks at the wider role of the Inquisition as an educative force in society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rawlings has made a valuable contribution to the field. She has successfully constructed a thought-provoking, analytical précis of some of the most essential studies of her subject. She has emphasized the complicated and contingent nature of the Inquisition’s practices in a manner accessible to any interested reader.\" (\u003ci\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, January 2009)  \u003cp\u003e\"Offers insights into a much mythologised and maligned phenomenon and, historiographically, it's bang up to date.\" \u003ci\u003e(BBC History Magazine)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Helen Rawling's \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Inquisition\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent introduction to this complex and controversial subject.\" (\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Solid virtues and thoughtful care ... have gone into this contribution.\" \u003ci\u003e(Bulletin of Spanish Studies)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Makes for compelling reading and for a perfect test case against which to measure all the revisionist history that Rawlings so aptly summarises.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Ecclesiastical History)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps and Plates. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Historiography of the Inquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSixteenth and Seventeenth-century Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Black Legend.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEighteenth and Nineteenth-century Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwentieth-century Scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Inquisitorial Data-bank.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Four Seasons of the Inquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Inquisition as an Institution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Office of Inquisitor General.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Council of Inquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Inquisition in the Provinces.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Procedures of the Inquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Auto de Fe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Finances of the Inquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInquisitors General of Castile and Aragón, 1483--1818 (Appendix).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Inquisition and the Converso.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnti-semitic Tensions in Spanish Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Statutes of Limpieza de Sangre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Beginnings of the Spanish Inquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Expulsion of the Jews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Portuguese New Christians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Inquisition and the Morisco.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1492--1525: Coexistence and Conversion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1526--1550: Respite.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1560--1570: Coercion and Revolt in Granada.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1570--1600: The End of Tolerance in Aragón.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1600-1609: The Route to Expulsion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1609--1614: The Aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Inquisition and Protestantism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIlluminism and Humanism under Attack.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInnovation in Religious Life Condemned.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Protestant Challenge, 1558--1559.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInquisitorial Censorship and the 1559 Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiblical Scholarship under Scrutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Inquisition and Minor Heresy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious Instruction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious Deviance:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(a) Blasphemy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(b) Bigamy and Sexual Promiscuity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(c) Solicitation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(d) Superstition and Witchcraft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Decline and Abolition of the Inquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Inquisition under the Bourbons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cortes of Cádiz, 1810--1813.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRestoration and Abolition, 1814--1823.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoya’s Inquisition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe balance of History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography and References.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403415003479,"sku":"9780631205999","price":85.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631205999.jpg?v=1730483399","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-spanish-inquisition-9780631205999","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}