{"product_id":"the-spanish-inquisition-hardback-9780631205999","title":"The Spanish Inquisition (Hardback) 9780631205999","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Spanish Inquisition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHelen Rawlings (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631205999, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 April 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e25 x 10 x 1.5 cm, 0.369 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Rawlings has made a valuable contribution to the field. She has successfully constructed a thought-provoking, analytical précis of some of the most essential studies of her subject. She has emphasized the complicated and contingent nature of the Inquisition’s practices in a manner accessible to any interested reader.\" (\u003ci\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, January 2009)  \u003cp\u003e\"Offers insights into a much mythologised and maligned phenomenon and, historiographically, it's bang up to date.\" \u003ci\u003e(BBC History Magazine)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Helen Rawling's \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Inquisition\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent introduction to this complex and controversial subject.\" (\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Solid virtues and thoughtful care ... have gone into this contribution.\" \u003ci\u003e(Bulletin of Spanish Studies)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Makes for compelling reading and for a perfect test case against which to measure all the revisionist history that Rawlings so aptly summarises.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Ecclesiastical History)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book challenges the reputation of the Spanish Inquisition as an instrument of religious persecution, torture and repressionand looks at its wider role as an educative force in society.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA reassessment of the history of the Spanish Inquisition.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChallenges the reputation of the Inquisition as an instrument of religious persecution, torture and repression.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLooks at the wider role of the Inquisition as an educative force in society.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on the findings of recent research by American, British and European scholars.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes original documentary evidence in translation.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Maps and Plates\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Historiography of the Inquisition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSixteenth and Seventeenth-century Literature\u003cbr\u003eThe Black Legend\u003cbr\u003eEighteenth and Nineteenth-century Literature\u003cbr\u003eTwentieth-century Scholarship\u003cbr\u003eThe Inquisitorial Data-bank\u003cbr\u003eThe Four Seasons of the Inquisition\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Inquisition as an Institution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Office of Inquisitor General\u003cbr\u003eThe Council of Inquisition\u003cbr\u003eThe Inquisition in the Provinces\u003cbr\u003eThe Procedures of the Inquisition\u003cbr\u003eThe Auto de Fe\u003cbr\u003eThe Finances of the Inquisition\u003cbr\u003eInquisitors General of Castile and Aragón, 1483-1818 (Appendix)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Inquisition and the Converso\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnti-semitic Tensions in Spanish Society\u003cbr\u003eThe Statutes of Limpieza de Sangre\u003cbr\u003eThe Beginnings of the Spanish Inquisition\u003cbr\u003eThe Expulsion of the Jews\u003cbr\u003eThe Portuguese New Christians\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The Inquisition and the Morisco\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1492-1525: Coexistence and Conversion\u003cbr\u003e1526-1550: Respite\u003cbr\u003e1560-1570: Coercion and Revolt in Granada\u003cbr\u003e1570-1600: The End of Tolerance in Aragón\u003cbr\u003e1600-1609: The Route to Expulsion\u003cbr\u003e1609-1614: The Aftermath\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Inquisition and Protestantism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlluminism and Humanism under Attack\u003cbr\u003eInnovation in Religious Life Condemned\u003cbr\u003eThe Protestant Challenge, 1558--1559\u003cbr\u003eInquisitorial Censorship and the 1559 Index\u003cbr\u003eBiblical Scholarship under Scrutiny\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Inquisition and Minor Heresy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReligious Instruction\u003cbr\u003eReligious Deviance:\u003cbr\u003e(a) Blasphemy\u003cbr\u003e(b) Bigamy and Sexual Promiscuity\u003cbr\u003e(c) Solicitation\u003cbr\u003e(d) Superstition and Witchcraft\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Decline and Abolition of the Inquisition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Inquisition under the Bourbons\u003cbr\u003eThe Cortes of Cádiz, 1810--1813\u003cbr\u003eRestoration and Abolition, 1814--1823\u003cbr\u003eGoya's Inquisition\u003cbr\u003eThe balance of History\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography and References\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See 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