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The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826âthe victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new work, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever.God's Jury encompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galileo, and Graham Greene. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jewsâand with burning at the stakeâits targets were more numerous and its techniques more ambitious. The Inquisition pioneered surveillance and censorship and "scientific" interrogation. As time went on, its methods and mindset spread far beyond the Church to become tools of secular persecution. Traveling from freshly opened Vatican archives to the detention camps of Guantánamo to the filing cabinets of the Third Reich, Murphy traces the Inquisition and its legacy.With the combination of vivid immediacy and learned analysis that characterized his acclaimed Are We Rome?, Murphy puts a human face on a familiar but little-known piece of our past, and argues that only by understanding the Inquisition can we hope to explain the making of the present.
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9780713995343 | Gardners Books, February 2, 2012, cover price $41.10
9780618091560 | Houghton Mifflin, January 17, 2012, cover price $27.00
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9780547844589 | Mariner Books, January 22, 2013, cover price $14.95
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9781452636825 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 19, 2012), cover price $83.99 | About this edition: The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826âthe victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy.
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9781848661684 | Slp edition (Quercus, October 18, 2011), cover price $75.00
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9780618742226 | Houghton Mifflin, May 10, 2007, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Offers a compelling study that compares modern-day America to the rise and fall of ancient Rome, offering a series of warnings, nuanced lessons, and thought-provoking strategies designed to avoid the Roman Empire's fate.
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9780547052106 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 5, 2008), cover price $15.95
An investigation into the geography, history, composition, mythology, demographics, and misperception of garbage discusses what human waste says about man's lifestyle
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9780060166038 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1992, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: An investigation into the geography, history, composition, mythology, demographics, and misperception of garbage discusses what human waste says about man's lifestyle
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9780816521432 | Univ of Arizona Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $19.95
9780060922283 | Reprint edition (Perennial, May 1, 1993), cover price $13.00
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9780395701133 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Discusses the ways in which feminist scholarship is changing the way we interpret the Bible and the role of women in the Bible
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9780618001927 | Mariner Books, October 8, 1999, cover price $24.95
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9780395700990 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1995, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Considers a variety of topics ranging from tax courts to religion, archaeology to ventriloquism, in a collection of essays
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