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Heaven or heresy : a history of the Inquisition

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  • Author: Madden, Thomas F.
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2007
    Summary:

    Saint Louis University professor Thomas Madden delivers a series of lectures exploring all facets of the Inquisition, including the religious and political climate of its time and the Inquisition's relationship to heresy and reformation. He imparts an understanding of the Spanish and Roman Inquisitions while dispelling popular myths associated with the subject.

    Contents:
    • The organization of the Catholic Church
    • Heresy and Orthodoxy
    • Roman law and the Church
    • Birth of the Medieval Inquisition
    • Medieval heresies
    • Centralizing the Medieval Inquisition
    • The working of the Medieval Inquisition
    • Birth of the Spanish Inquisition
    • "Poisonous, offensive, misleading": the new heresies of the Protestant Reformation
    • The Spanish Inquisition in its maturity
    • The Roman Inquisition
    • Crafting the myth of the Inquisition
    • The Inquisition and the Enlightenment
    • The Inquisition in popular culture.
    Genre:
    History and geography, Religion and spirituality
    Subject(s): Christian heresies | Church history | Europe | History | Inquisition | Middle Ages, 600-1500 | Spain
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD, [Prince Frederick, Md.], Recorded Books, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781456101633