In 1568, in the Spanish city of Toledo, Elvira del Campo was brought before the local tribunal of the Inquisition. Del Campo, a scrivener’s wife, had been accused of avoiding pork—in other words, of ...
Even those who otherwise know little of the history of the Catholic Church know about the Spanish Inquisition. As a Catholic theologian who has written on the subject of torture, I often face the ...
God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World isn't exactly a history. As the subtitle suggests, author Cullen Murphy is really interested in examining the dread institution's ...
Say what you will about the Inquisition, but it was an unequivocal success in one respect: Everyone knows its name. The Inquisition has long since been transmuted, by a kind of mental alchemy, from ...
GOD'S JURY: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World, by Cullen Murphy. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 310 pp., $27. "God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World" isn't ...
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