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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-100940322390
ISBN-139780940322394
eBay Product ID (ePID)1632832
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitleOrigins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain
Number of Pages1424 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicEurope / Spain & Portugal, Jewish
GenreHistory
AuthorB. Netanyahu
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height2.4 in
Item Weight67.2 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-030216
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal272/.2/0946
SynopsisThe Spanish Inquisition remains a fearful symbol of state terror. Its principal target was theconversos, descendants of Spanish Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity some three generations earlier. Since thousands of them confessed to charges of practicing Judaism in secret, historians have long understood the Inquisition as an attempt to suppress the Jews of Spain. In this magisterial reexamination of the origins of the Inquisition, Netanyahu argues for a different view: that the conversos were in fact almost all genuine Christians who were persecuted for political ends. The Inquisition's attacks not only on the conversos' religious beliefs but also on their "impure blood" gave birth to an anti-Semitism based on race that would have terrible consequences for centuries to come. This book has become essential reading and an indispensable reference book for both the interested layman and the scholar of history and religion., The Spanish Inquisition remains a fearful symbol of state terror. Its principal target was the conversos , descendants of Spanish Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity some three generations earlier. Since thousands of them confessed to charges of practicing Judaism in secret, historians have long understood the Inquisition as an attempt to suppress the Jews of Spain. In this magisterial reexamination of the origins of the Inquisition, Netanyahu argues for a different view: that the conversos were in fact almost all genuine Christians who were persecuted for political ends. The Inquisition's attacks not only on the conversos' religious beliefs but also on their "impure blood" gave birth to an anti-Semitism based on race that would have terrible consequences for centuries to come. This book has become essential reading and an indispensable reference book for both the interested layman and the scholar of history and religion.