The Inquisition
$40.51
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2000
Summary
After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk – later canonized as St Dominic – took up the cudgels by establishing a kind of secret police to ferret out heresy, thus began the infamous Inquisition.
Baigent and Leigh tell the whole extraordinary story, taking it on into the nineteenth century and showing how, after the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility in 1870, the Vatican attempted to establish new authorities that were an intellectual e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140274660 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140274669 |
| Author: | Richard Leigh, Michael Baigent |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2000 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 35mm |
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About The Author
Richard Leigh
Michael Baigent is a New Zealander who has lived in the UK since 1976, and Richard Leigh an American who has also been here for many years. Together they collaborated on the international bestseller THE HOLY BLOOD and THE HOLY GRAIL. Baigent lives in Winchester, Hampshire, Leigh in London NW3.
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