Joseph Pérez tells the history of the Spanish Inquisition from its medieval beginnings to its nineteenth-century ending. Nearly 32,000 people were publicly burned at the stake the "fortunate" ones were flogged, fined, or imprisoned. Those denounced were guilty unless they could prove their innocence. Children informed on their parents, merchants on their rivals, and priests upon their bishops. Next in line were humanists and Lutherans. Authorities then turned on Spanish Jews in general, sending 300,000 into exile. Established by papal bull in 1478, the first task of the Spanish Inquisition was to question Jewish converts to Christianity and to expose and execute those found guilty of reversion. This is the story of 350 years of terror. A new history of the Spanish Inquisition-a terrifying battle for a unified faith.
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