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Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God | Jonathan Kirsch
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The Grand Inquisitor's Manual by nationally bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch is a provocative popular history of the Inquisition, the 12th century reign of church-sanctioned terror. Ranging from the Knights Templar to the first Protestants, from Joan of Arc to Galileo, The Grand Inquisitor's Manual is a fascinating and sobering study of the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of "heretics" in God's name--the original blueprints for persecution originally drafted in the Middle Ages but followed for centuries afterwards, up to and including the "advanced interrogation methods" recently employed at Guantanamo Bay.
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I really enjoyed this book, I learned a lot and it was no where near as graphic as I thought it would be. The inquisition, the author argues, laid the ground work for the Holocaust, the USSR trials and gulags, the Japanese internment and McCarthy trials, and the evils of the Patriot Act. I don‘t agree with all of that, but the development of the manuals and the history of the inquisition, the majority of the book, are fascinating. 4/5 stars