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Review: Inquisition
Title: Inquisition
Author: Edward Peters
Paperback: 362 pages
Publisher: University of California Press, 1989
Language: EnglishThis brilliant study is immensely valuable to the amateur historian on three levels. The least of these is how it shows the Inquisition as the outcome of the legal system of Ancient Rome. It also examines in detail the organization, procedures, process and results of the various inquisition throughout an 800+ year history based on the notoriously meticulous records recently released from the Vatican Archive. More importantly, it compares the process of the inquisition to that of secular courts […]