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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. - The inquisitorial apparatus that was first invented in the Middle Ages remained in operation for the next six-hundred years, and it has never been wholly dismantled. As we shall see, an unbroken thread links the friar-inquisitors who set up the rack and the pyre in southern France in the early thirteenth century to the torturers and executioners of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia in the mid-twentieth century. Nor does the thread stop at Auschwitz or the Gulag; it can be traced through the Salem witch trials in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the internment of Japanese

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Author

Jonathan Kirsch

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061732768

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Christian

Rating

3.68 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14