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20%OFFMichael Baigent - The Inquisition - 9780140274660 - V9780140274660
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The Inquisition

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Description for The Inquisition Paperback. After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk took up the cudgels by establishing a kind of secret police to ferret out heresy. Thus began the infamous Inquisition. This title tells the story, taking it on into the 19th century and showing how the Vatican attempted to establish new authorities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLC; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140274660
SKU
V9780140274660
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About Michael Baigent
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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