{"product_id":"2026100007364-secondhand-the-spanish-inquisition","title":"The Spanish Inquisition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew institutions in Western history have cast as long and dark a shadow as the Spanish Inquisition — a tribunal of terror that for nearly four centuries wielded the power of life and death over the minds and souls of men. Henry Kamen's landmark work, The Spanish Inquisition, cuts through centuries of myth and propaganda to present a rigorously researched account of one of the Catholic Church's most feared instruments of religious conformity, chronicling its origins in 15th-century Castile, its brutal methods of interrogation and auto-da-fé, and its profound consequences for Jews, Muslims, Protestants, and free-thinkers across the Iberian Peninsula and its empire.\n\nKamen writes with the authoritative clarity of a scholar who refuses to be seduced by simplistic narratives of villainy, instead illustrating the complex interplay of politics, faith, nationalism, and fear that sustained the Inquisition for so long. His prose is measured yet compelling, dissecting the social and theological machinery of repression with the precision of a surgeon, and situating the institution within the broader currents of early modern European history. A work of profound historical significance, The Spanish Inquisition forces us to confront an uncomfortable question: how does a society come to sanction, and even celebrate, its own capacity for cruelty?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130994893019,"sku":"2026100007364-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/61ac332f-8fb9-43f4-874d-1c22ad7e1f53.png?v=1786593935","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007364-secondhand-the-spanish-inquisition","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}