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 ...

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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 ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Jan. 23, 2012. The individuals who participated in the first Inquisition 800 years ago kept detailed records of their activities. Vast archival collections ...

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 ...

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, by Cullen Murphy. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 310 pp., $27. "God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World" isn't ...

As outlined in our previous post, there are very few tales as tall as the tales told of the Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition and Catholic Spain. Among the many, many lies of the Black Legend of ...