The Inquisition - Hardcover

Michael Baigent/Richard Leigh

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ISBN 10: 0670880329 ISBN 13: 9780670880324

Publisher: Viking, 1999

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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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Synopsis:

This text presents a full history of the inquisition, beginning with St Dominic crossing the Pyrenees into Spain and the persecution of the villagers of South-West France that followed, right through to the holy index of forbidden books in the 20th century. The book gives a full account of how the church has as tried to ring-fence its beliefs over the centuries - from full-scale violent persecution to the more subtle censorships of recent years.

About the Author:

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.

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