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The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition
at The Very Moment Martin Luther Nails His Ninety-five Theses To A Church Door And Launches The Movement That Will Divide The Roman Catholic Church, A Child Is Born In The Spanish City Of Valladollid,... His Fate Marked By The Political And Religious Upheaval Taking Root In Europe. His Mother Having Perished In Childbirth, His Father Self-absorbed And Disconnected, Cipriano Salcedo's Only Source Of Affection Is His Wet Nurse And Foster Mother, Minerva. He Grows Up To Become A Prosperous Merchant And Joins The Reformation Movement, Which Is Secretly Advancing On The Iberian Peninsula, The Historical Bastion Of The Catholic Church. But Before Long, The Spanish Inquisition Will Drive The Reformers To Put Their Lives At Stake. Through The Story Of Cipriano Salcedo, Delibes Paints A Masterful Portrait Of The Time Of 16th-century Spain And Recreates With Uncanny Accuracy And Unparalleled Artistry The Social And Intellectual Atmosphere Of Europe At One Of History's Most Pivotal Moments. An Ode To Tolerance And The Liberty Of Conscience - And A Masterwork By One Of Contemporary World Literature's Most Accomplished And Venerated Authors - The Heretic Is An Unforgettable Story Of A Man And The Passions That Move Him To Action.publishers Weeklywinner Of The 1999 Spanish Literary Prize, The Premio Nacional De Narrative, Delibes's Assured Historical Novel Takes Place In The Spanish City Of Valladolid, Where Cipriano Salcedo Is Born On October 31, 1517, The Same Day Martin Luther Nails His 95 Theses To A Church Door In Wittenberg. Deprived Of His Mother, Who Dies Shortly After Childbirth, And Alienated From His Self-absorbed Father, Cipriano Grows Up A Wealthy Bourgeois Tormented By An Overly Acute Conscience. He Marries Teodomira, An Earthy Daughter Of A Sheep Farmer Who Ultimately Suffers A Pitiful Fate. After Meeting Theologians Agust N, Pedro Cazalla And Don Carlos De Seso, Cipriano Converts To Lutheranism And Quickly Becomes A Leading Member Of The Local Underground Protestant Reformation, Working To Win Other Converts And Even Traveling To Germany For The Movement. When The Inquisition Arrests A Sect Member, The Entire Group-including Cipriano-is Exposed And All Are Arrested. Delibes (the Hedge, Etc.) Weaves An Engrossing Tapestry Of Historical And Theological Minutiae, But The Character Of Cipriano Is An Allegorical, Everyman Figure. The Real Protagonist Of This Novel Is The 16th-century Incarnation Of The Author's Hometown, Valladolid, Which He Recreates In Lucid Detail. (apr.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Against the Inquisition
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The Inquisitor's Wife
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God's Jury
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Prisoner of the Inquisition
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The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Paul Preston Sheds Crucial Light On Spain's Darkest Period, When Franco And His Supporters Reconstructed An Entire Society Through Violence. Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. 1 Origins Of Hatred An...d Violence -- 1. Social War Begins, 1931-1933 -- 2. Theorists Of Extermination -- 3. Right Goes On The Offensive, 1933-1934 -- 4. Coming Of War, 1934-1936 -- Pt. 2 Institutionalized Violence In The Rebel Zone -- 5. Queipo's Terror: The Purging Of The South -- 6. Mola's Terror: The Purging Of Navarre, Galicia, Castile And Leon -- Pt. 3 Consequence Of The Coup: Spontaneous Violence In The Republican Zone -- 7. Far From The Front: Repression Behind The Republican Lines -- 8. Revolutionary Terror In Madrid -- Pt. 4 Madrid Besieged: The Threat And The Response -- 9. Column Of Death's March On Madrid -- 10. Terrified City Responds: The Massacres Of Paracuellos -- Pt. 5 Two Concepts Of War -- 11. Defending The Republic From The Enemy Within -- 12. Franco's Slow War Of Annihilation -- Pt. 6 Franco's Investment In Terror -- 13. No Reconciliation: Trials, Executions, Prisons. Paul Preston. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
The Grand Inquisitor's Manual
The Inquisitorial Apparatus That Was First Invented In The Middle Ages Remained In Operation For The Next Six Hundred Years, And It Has Never Been Wholly Dismantled. As We Shall See, An Unbroken Threa...d Links The Friar-inquisitors Who Set Up The Rack And The Pyre In Southern France In The Early Thirteenth Century To The Torturers And Executioners Of Nazi Germany And Stalinist Russia In The Mid-twentieth Century. Nor Does The Thread Stop At Auschwitz Or The Gulag; It Can Be Traced Through The Salem Witch Trials In The Massachusetts Bay Colony, The Internment Of Japanese-americans During World War Ii, The Hollywood Blacklists Of The Mccarthy Era, And Even The Interrogation Cells At Abu Ghraib And Guantanamo.--p. 3. The Pietà And The Pear -- The Cathar Kiss -- The Hammer Of Heretics -- Crime And Punishment -- The Inquisitor's Manual -- Purity Of Blood -- The Eternal Inquisitor -- American Inquisition. Jonathan Kirsch. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 279-283) And Index.
The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision
a Renowned Historian Here Presents A New View Of The Notorious Spanish Inquisition, Arguing That There Was Less Terror, Bigotry, And Persecution Associated With It Than Has Been Previously Believed. B...ased On Thirty Years Of Research, The Book Will Revolutionize Further Study In The Field. ny Times Book Review - Richard L. Kagan the Best General Book [on The Subject] Both For Its Range And Its Depth Of Information.
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The Last Song
When The Tolerant Culture Of Spain Is Shattered By The Inquisition, Isabel Feels Safe Because Of Her Catholic Upbringing And Father's Position As A Respected Doctor, Until He Is Arrested For The Famil...y's Secret Jewish Heritage. Eva Wiseman.
