Inquisition

The Inquisition (Latin: Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis Sanctum Officium) was an office of the Roman Catholic Church charged with suppressing heresy. Its actions and interactions with local governments are the subjects of considerable historical inquiry.

References

• Edward M. Peters, Inquisition. (University of California Press, 1989). ISBN 0520066308
• A brief, balanced inquiry, with an especially good section on the 'Myth of the Inquisition'. This is particularly valuable because much of the history available in English of the Inquisition was written in the 19th century by Protestants interested in documenting the dangers of Catholicism or Catholic apologists demonstrating that the Inquisition had been an entirely reasonable judicial body without flaws.
• Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. (Yale University Press, 1999). ISBN 0300078803
• This revised edition of his 1965 original contributes to the understanding of the Spanish Inquisition in its local context.
• Cecil & Irene Roth, A history of the Marranos, Sepher-Hermon Press, 1974.
• Simon Whitechapel, Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition (Creation Books, 2003). ISBN 1840681055
• William Thomas Walsh, Characters of the Inquisition (TAN Books, 1997). ISBN 0895553260
• Favorable treatment of inquisitors.