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Book Torquemada at the Stake

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benito Pérez Galdós
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780486434308
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Torquemada at the Stake written by Benito Pérez Galdós and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galdos (1843-1920) ranks alongside such 19th-century realists as Dickens, Balzac, and Tolstoy. Throughtout his writings, Galdos chronicles the public and private life of Madrid during its formative years as a modern city. This novella recounts an avaricious moneylender's attempts to restore his son's failing health through acts of charity. Dual-language edition.

Book Tomas de Torquemada

    Book Details:
  • Author : Enid A. Goldberg
  • Publisher : Franklin Watts
  • Release : 2009-09
  • ISBN : 9780531138977
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Tomas de Torquemada written by Enid A. Goldberg and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From property forfeiture to public flogging to burning at the stake, persecution and torture were all in a day's work for Tomás de Torquemada-- a monk without mercy for anyone who broke the laws of the Church.

Book Torquemada Revisited

Download or read book Torquemada Revisited written by William Lowell Putnam and published by Light Technology Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origin of the forces and personalities that brought about the Spanish Inquisition and its impact on the larger world. It dwells extensively on the causes and principal figures of the Protestant Reformation and explains how those attitudes came to influence the evolution of modern American politics and bigotry. A careful reading of this narrative explains how political and religious leaders, often being somewhat interchangeable, have been able to devise "enemies" that can be used to convince sufficient of the populace to elect or retain in high office whose who portray themselves as opposed to such "enemies"; ignoring, in so doing, the sage advice of Benjamin Franklin that "those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security."

Book Torquemada

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  • Author : Howard Fast
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2011-12-27
  • ISBN : 1453235108
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book Torquemada written by Howard Fast and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “eerily successful” novel of the fifteenth-century Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition from the New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus (Kirkus Reviews). Bestselling author Howard Fast’s 1966 novelization of the Spanish Inquisition, Torquemada, is a terrifying drama about one of history’s most notorious individuals. Prior Thomas de Torquemada and Don Alvaro de Rafel, a Spanish knight, have been friends for many years. But when Torquemada is named Spain’s Grand Inquisitor by King Ferdinand and begins to hear whispers that Alvaro may have a secret Jewish past, he transforms from Alvaro’s old friend into a menacing new enemy.Inspired by Fast’s experiences being investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and his subsequent jailing and blacklisting, Torquemada is a thrilling historical tale from a master of the genre. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Book The Age of Torquemada

Download or read book The Age of Torquemada written by John Edward Longhurst and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition

Download or read book Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition written by Rafael Sabatini and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an incredible history focusing on the role of Tomás de Torquemada in the Spanish inquisition. Torquemada was a Castilian Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain's movement to standardize religious conventions with those of the Catholic Church in the late 15th century. In 1483, Ferdinand and Isabella appointed a state council to administer the inquisition with Torquemada acting as its head and he ultimately acquired the title of Inquisitor-General. The accounts presented in this work are raw but factual and solid. Sabatini debunks some popular misconceptions about the inquisition and gives his own views on the time's prominent political and religious figures. This history is illustrated with trials and examples of Torquemada and the Holy Office at work. It is well-written and often surprising in its revelations.

Book God s Jury

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cullen Murphy
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0618091564
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book God s Jury written by Cullen Murphy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the Inquisition, and an examination of the influence it exerted on contemporary society, by the author of ARE WE ROME?

Book A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews

Download or read book A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews written by Avner Falk and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This includes the evolution of the Hebrew religion as a projective response to the inner conflicts produced by the human family; the sociopsychological development of the Israelite kingdoms in Canaan; the fascinating duality of Jewish life in the "Diaspora"; and the emotional ties of the Jews to their idealized motherland from the Babylonian exile to modern political Zionism.

Book The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain

Download or read book The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain written by Antonio Cordoba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how modernity, the urban, and the sacred overlap in fundamental ways in contemporary Spain. Urban spaces have traditionally been seen as the original sites of modernity, history, progress, and a Weberian systematic disenchantment of the world, while the sacred has been linked to the natural, the rural, mythical past origins, and exemption from historical change. This collection problematizes such clear-cut distinctions as overlaps between the modern urban and the sacred in Spanish culture are explored throughout the volume. Placed in the periphery of Europe, Spain has had a complex relationship with the concept of modernity and commonly understood processes of modernization and secularization, thus offering a unique case-study of the interaction between the modern and the sacred in the city.

Book Torquemada

Download or read book Torquemada written by Benito Pérez Galdós and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dark History of the Popes

Download or read book Dark History of the Popes written by Brenda Ralph Lewis and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From corruption to nepotism, from crusade to witch-burning to Inquisition, from popes sanctioning murder to popes being murdered, Dark History of The Popes explores more than 1000 years of sinister deeds surrounding the papacy.

Book A history of political and religious persecutions  by F  Garrido and C B  Cayley

Download or read book A history of political and religious persecutions by F Garrido and C B Cayley written by Fernando GARRIDO (and CAYLEY (Charles Bagot)) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition

Download or read book Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition written by Rafael Sabatini and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rogues  Rebels and Mavericks of the Middle Ages

Download or read book Rogues Rebels and Mavericks of the Middle Ages written by John Brunton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating accounts of the outrageous criminals, murderous fanatics, unrepentant heretics and audacious pioneers of the medieval era.

Book Notorious Tyrants

Download or read book Notorious Tyrants written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, there are those who have been labeled "dictator" or "tyrant." Their influence, while an important part of history, had a negative impact. Readers explore the lives of some of the world's most notorious tyrants, including Nero and Qaddafi. How they lived, how they died, and their impact on history are revealed.

Book To the Ends of the Earth

Download or read book To the Ends of the Earth written by Peter O. Koch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European explorers who dared to face the perils of the unknown have in recent times become shrouded in controversy. No longer esteemed as heroes, except in their homelands, these bold explorers are now seen as purveyors of disease, destruction and slavery whose only interests were finding gold, becoming famous, and spreading their religious beliefs. But, as the author of this work points out, these explorers broke down long-standing myths and broadened the world's horizons. Beginning with Prince Henry the Navigator's worldly vision of finding a direct sea route to India and concluding with Ferdinand Magellan's quest to be the first man to sail around the world, this work tells the collective story of the numerous explorers who sought to find a path to the exotic spices and other treasures of the Far East. Most of the explorers included in this work were of the same generation and several of them even sailed together. The book also examines the political, social and economic factors that ushered in the age of exploration and had such an impact upon the explorers.